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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

kosher adj. and sb. of meat prepared according to Jewish law. XIX. — Heb. kāshēr right.

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