Tabernacles
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Then, six months later, Jews celebrate Sukkot, or Tabernacles, and build huts to commemorate, according to one opinion in the Talmud, the ramshackle shelters in which Israelites dwelled as they followed God through the desert.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2016
The Samaritan high priest raises a Torah scroll at Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles, on Mount Gerizim near Nablus.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2012
Israel's delegation was absent from the assembly hall, but a spokeswoman for the Israeli U.N. mission said it was due to the Jewish holiday of Sukkoth, the Feast of Tabernacles.
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2010
The nine-day Feast of Tabernacles, for instance, with four days when work is forbidden, fell during a series of lectures before a make-or-break exam in pathology.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gun-emplacements are camouflaged with bushes against aerial observation, and look like a kind of military Feast of the Tabernacles.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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