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Jewish headgear
Answer for the clue "Jewish headgear ", 8 letters:
yarmulke
Alternative clues for the word yarmulke
Word definitions for yarmulke in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A skullcap worn by religious Jewish males (especially during prayer).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1903, from Yiddish yarmulke , from Polish jarmułka , originally "a skullcap worn by priests," perhaps ultimately from Medieval Latin almutia "cowl, hood."
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer) [syn: yarmulka , yarmelke ]
Usage examples of yarmulke.
Hot as I was, he had to be feeling it more, with his long bushy beard, payos, and yarmulke.
Doc Sherve, dressed in a plaid shirt and jeans that, together with his beard and the small knit cap covering the top of his head in a way that reminded Ian more of a yarmulke than anything else, somehow made him look more like an ancient lumberjack than a physician.
Academy Headmaster who grows one side to girlish length and carefully combs it so it rides thinly up and over the gleaming yarmulke of bare gray-green-complected scalp on top and down over the other side where it hangs lank and fools no one and tends to flap back up over in any wind Charles Tavis forgets to carefully keep his left side to.
A tiny man, less than five foot fourthe yarmulke held on to his thinning hair with kirby grips, a rim of close-cropped white beard, a tape measure slung around his neck, a grubby waistcoat on top of a threadbare cardigan, pins stuck in all over it and chalk dust smeared at the rims of its pockets.
I couldn't help thinking she must see me with a prayer shawl around my neck and yarmulke on my head as I swayed back and forth praying.