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hamantasch

ha·man·tasch [ hmən tsh ] (plural ha·man·tasch·en [ hmən tshən ])


noun 
Definition:
 
Jewish pastry: a triangular pastry filled with spiced dried fruit or poppy seeds and eaten during the Jewish feast of Purim

[< Yiddish< Haman, persecutor of the Jews in the Book of Esther + tasch< German Tasche "bag, pocket"]
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