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parve

British  
/ ˈpɑrvə /

adjective

  1. a variant of parev

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"Unlike the butter-rich, non-Jewish babka, Jewish versions were usually kept parve by using oil," which meant they were "firmer and slightly drier than brioche."

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2022

“He wants to be in the most parve place in the world.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 7, 2015

The rabbis, however, allow for "neutral," or parve foods�vegetables, grain products, fish, eggs.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have 4� sets of dishes and silver: meat, dairy, just a few parve, or neutral pieces, and a special meat set and dairy set for Passover.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wakefield, in one of his notes, remarks on this— "An allusion perhaps, to that verse of Virgil, 'Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem.'"

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various