noun
(Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking
• Syn: ↑challah
• Topics: ↑cooking, ↑cookery, ↑preparation, ↑Judaism
• Hypernyms: ↑bread, ↑breadstuff, ↑staff of life
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/khah"leuh, hah"-/, n.
challah.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.