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matzoh

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

noun

  • matzohs,
    plural
  • matzoth,
    plural
  • matzot
    plural
  1. a variant of matzo.


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In one Midwestern state — far from the nearest bowl of matzoh ball soup — someone said it sounded like another word: “gumption.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022

Parkway’s chicken soup — with or without a fluffy-if-undersalted matzoh ball — I know well.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022

She’ll cook matzoh ball soup and tzimmes, a stew made of sweet potatoes and carrots.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2022

Owner Jake Dell says, entirely serious, he hopes his customers like his matzoh balls second best.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2022

You had to use Passover dishes and we had a big seder, where the family sat down and the table was set with matzoh and parsley, boiled eggs and other traditional Jewish food.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

If the men who worked in the matzoh factory saw us, they sometimes would separate us and give everyone hot baked matzohs.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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

For the first time since the Romans leveled Jerusalem 1,800 years ago, a Jewish army ate Passover matzoth and bitter herbs around campfires in the field.

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

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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