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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A youth of an age to obey the commandments: applied to a Jewish boy on his thirteenth birthday, when, according to rabbinical law, he has reached the age of responsibility.
- noun The celebration of a Jewish boy's thirteenth birthday.
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