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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

Hundreds were lining up outside his synagogue hoping to receive a kilo of matzah each for their Passover dinner tables.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2022

The table was piled high with food: matzah, roast beef, hard- boiled eggs, goblets of deep red wine.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

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

Why is this matzah different from all other matzahs?

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

Sprinkle the toffee-coated matzos with chocolate and let cool before enjoying.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2023

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

From Fox News ● Nov. 30, 2021

The ghetto had kosher butchers and grocers, and for cooking, the residents shared two communal ovens at the synagogue: one used year-round for bread, and the other for Passover matzos.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2018

About 2.5 million pounds of matzos were baked for April’s Passover holiday and distributed worldwide.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 30, 2015

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

But in many of these places, one does not live by matzoth, pita or tortillas alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally, with ten tons of matzoth spilling over five postal substations, officials called the Sanitary Engineering department and requested that it cart the matzoth off and burn them.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

To every egg add one-half tablespoon of matzoth meal and one tablespoon of sugar.

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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