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yarmulke|ˈjɑːməlkə|
Also yarmulka; (more rarely) jarmulka, yarmolka, etc.
[ad. Yiddish yarmolke, ad. Polish jarmulka cap.]
A skull-cap worn by male Orthodox Jews at all times, and by other male Jews on religious occasions: = koppel.
1903Jewish Encycl. IV. 301/2 The so-called Jewish garb of Poland, including even the ‘jarmulka’ (under-cap), is simply the old Polish costume which the Jews retained. 1929Menorah Jrnl. XVI. 37 Jacob..saw and did not revere the squat figure clumsy in its..yarmelke. 1930M. Gold Jews without Money 95 My father took me to the tailor and had made a handsome velvet yamalka. 1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? ix. 232 There in the synagogue,..with his impressive shawl, his yarmolka and his great beard, there life was rich. 1957L. Stern Midas Touch i. v. 45 He wore his yamulka (skull cap) when it was ritually required. 1962‘E. McBain’ Empty Hours 111, I was collecting the prayers shawls and the yarmelkas. 1963T. Pynchon V. iv. 97 He went out of his way to cultivate the Tagliacozzi look:..wearing a bushy mustache, pointed beard, sometimes even a skull⁓cap, his old schoolboy yarmulke. 1966L. Davidson Long Way to Shiloh xv. 221 You have the yarmulkah? Remember to put it on. 1966H. Kemelman Saturday Rabbi went Hungry (1969) i. 14 He wondered if the cantor had put on his robes and tall white yarmulka. 1971B. Malamud Tenants 90 Sam Clemence, a Mephistophelean type in yarmulke and yellow dashiki. 1975Church Times 7 Nov. 5/1 A lively man in a business suit and embroidered yarmulka—the little skull-cap worn by orthodox Jews. 1979‘A. Hailey’ Overload iii. xi. 244 Hardly any of us took a yarmulke. I didn't. Had to borrow one when I went to the Wall in Jerusalem. 1984Times 24 Sept. 4/6 The captain, who wore Israeli army uniform with a red yarmulka fringed with gold on his head. |