Bris
Brith.
the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child eight days after his birth.
Contemporary Examples
Why Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Babies Keep Getting Herpes Emily Shire July 28, 2014
Welfare Reform? Not For The Orthodox Raphael Magarik June 12, 2012
Why Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Babies Keep Getting Herpes Emily Shire July 28, 2014
Historical Examples
1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described Edward S. Ellis
A Winter Amid the Ice Jules Verne
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
History of the Fan George Woolliscroft Rhead
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(Judaism) ritual circumcision of male babies, usually at eight days old, regarded as the formal entry of the child to the Jewish community
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a variant of bris
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