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tref (trāf)

adjective

Judaism not clean or fit to eat according to the dietary laws; not kosher

Etymology: Yiddish treif < Heb terēfāh, animal torn by predatory beast

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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