PAREVE

pareve, parve

(adjective) containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism; “pareve margarine”; “parvebread”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

pareve (not comparable)

(Jewish law) Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient.

(figuratively, by extension) Neutral, bland, inoffensive.

Usage notes

• In Yiddish, פּאַרעוו is the predicative form and פּאַרעווע the attributive form of the adjective. Some speakers familiar with Yiddish use this distribution in English as well, e.g, My mom made a pareve casserole but This casserole is parev.

Anagrams

• repave

Source: Wiktionary



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