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matzah

American  
[maht-suh, mah-tsah, mah-tsaw] / ˈmɑt sə, mɑˈtsɑ, ˈmɑ tsɔ /

noun

  • matzahs,
    plural
  • matzoth,
    plural
  • matzot,
    plural
  • matzos
    plural
  1. a variant of matzo.


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The most important reward in the mind of his mother is that the winner gets to appear on a limited-edition cover of its matzah box.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

There is only one thing on the menu that I wouldn't order: the duck matzah ball soup.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2022

The walls of the centre are covered in smiling photos of family gatherings and a box of matzah stapled to a display of a shabbat meal.

From BBC ● May 8, 2022

He’s been waving in trucks loaded with Passover supplies – matzah from Israel, milk from France, meat from Britain.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2022

Religions bring the sacred into our lives with Gothic churches, Muslim mosques, Hindu ashrams, Torah scrolls, Tibetan prayer wheels, priestly cassocks, candles, incense, Christmas trees, matzah balls, tombstones and icons.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Why is this matzah different from all other matzahs?

From Washington Times ● Apr. 12, 2022

He said the group would also make special efforts to distribute shmura matzahs to those Ukrainian Jews who were unable to flee the fighting.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 12, 2022

Equally poignant, he noted, is that April 12 was the 120th birth anniversary of the Rebbe, sparking the Lubavitcher movement to ramp up distribution of the shmura matzahs.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 12, 2022

Alongside the plate are three matzos — or unleavened flatbread — that symbolize Jewish resistance and faith.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2023

One of those “impactful” elements is the three pieces of unleavened bread — matzos — which are contained in a “Matzo Tosh,” or bag, he said.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

If you don’t prefer gluten-free matzos, substitute a traditional matzo mix, she also notes.

From Fox News ● Nov. 30, 2021

So I FedExed a box of matzos to her hotel.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2010

Then we started to put the matzos in, one by one.

From Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago by Hannah Trager

In one story, it is 1959 and Mr. Lois is a young ad man with the Goodman’s matzot account.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022

Soviet diplomats, by now well-accustomed to confrontations with Jewish organizations over the treatment of Soviet Jews, quickly devised a counterploy: they refused to accept delivery and dumped the matzoth into the laps of the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

After feasting on chicken soup with matzoth balls, gefilte fish, and boiled beef with horseradish, it is inconceivable that one drop of animosity toward Israel could remain in Feisal's kingly body.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Manhattan, an ecumenical group of friends sits down to a classic Seder meal including the symbolic foods: matzoth, bitter herbs and haunch of spring lamb.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soviet embassy officials in Washington found in their mail a number of boxes of matzoth, the traditional unleavened wafers used to celebrate the Jewish holiday.

From Time Magazine Archive

CHRIMSEL, No. 1 Sift one cup of matzoth meal in a bowl, stir into it one cup of boiling soup stock or wine.

From The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc. by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

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