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Bris

UK/bɹɪs/ rare

noun

1.

the Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life

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Borrowed from Yiddish ברית (bris), from Hebrew בְּרִית (bərîṯ, “covenant”).

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