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- noun A type of traditional
headgear worn in families of manyHasidic rabbis , by unmarried children onShabbat and by rabbis on special occasions. It is a made from brown fur (as opposed to a spodik, worn by Polish Hasidic dynasties, which is fashioned out of black fur).
Etymologies
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The word originated from a Turkish word for this kind of hat, kalpak.
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