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‖ kippah, n.|kɪˈpɑː|
Also kipa(h, kipoh, kippa.
[ad. Heb. kippāh.]
A skullcap worn by Orthodox male Jews. Cf. koppel n., yarmulke n.
1964H. Kemelman Friday Rabbi slept Late xxi. 163 ‘What do you call that thing you're wearing?’ The rabbi touched his black silk skullcap. ‘This? A kipoh.’ 1973Jewish Chron. 14 Sept. 22/2 Jerusalemites..are getting to be more religious by the year. One proof of this is the kipah-count. 1975Ibid. 3 Jan. 16/2, I have little against the skull-cap (or kippa as I prefer to call it), but what I can't stand are the brethren who feel that the kippa does not represent the full measure of their piety, and who therefore cap their cap with a hat. 1978Church Times 16 June 11/2 Orthodox Jewish boys, all wearing the regulation kipa, played outside. 1981Christian Science Monitor 27 Mar. 22/2 Young Jews in Paris had stopped wearing the kipah (skullcap) when walking on the streets or riding the metro. 1988Times 22 Jan. 6/2 A red-haired young infantryman in a khaki kippa chimed in. 1991A. M. Dershowitz Chutzpah v. 157 Joe Lipner..wears a Kippah, keeps kosher, and observes the Sabbath. |