Jewess


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Jew·ess

(jo͞o′ĭs)
n. Offensive
A Jewish woman or girl.
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Jewess

(ˈdʒuːɪs)
n
(Judaism) often offensive a Jewish girl or woman
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Jew•ess

(ˈdʒu ɪs)

n. Older Use: Usually Offensive.
(a term used to refer to a Jewish girl or woman.)
usage: See -ess.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun 1. [画像:Jewess - a woman who is a Jew]Jewess - a woman who is a Jew
Jew, Hebrew, Israelite - a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties
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Translations
jødinde
jødinne
judinna

Jewess

[ˈdʒuːɪs] N (o.f., gen pej) → judía f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

Jewess

n → Jüdin f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

Jewess

[ˈdʒuːɪs] n (offensive) → ebrea
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants, was another distinction of the beautiful Jewess, scoffed and sneered at by the proud dames who sat above her, but secretly envied by those who affected to deride them.
``By the bald scalp of Abraham,'' said Prince John, ``yonder Jewess must be the very model of that perfection, whose charms drove frantic the wisest king that ever lived !
``The Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley,'' answered the Prior, in a sort of snuffling tone; ``but your Grace must remember she is still but a Jewess.''
"There were cellars underneath (lined with wood of course, the whole house was built of wood); they had stowed their children away down there, and one more particularly, a girl of seventeen, as handsome as a Jewess can be when she keeps herself tidy and has not fair hair.
There I stayed smoking my pipe, absorbed in watching the Jewess until she blew out the candle and went to bed.
He had her olive complexion, beautiful black eyes with a sad and thoughtful expression in them, long hair, a head too energetic for the fragile body; all the peculiar beauty of the Polish Jewess had been transmitted to her son.
We didn't come down here to be made fools of by a fat old Jewess. You won't send us away because of the old wretch?"
Da Souza, a Jewess portly and typical, resplendent in black satin and many gold chains and bangles, occupied the seat of honour, and by her side was a little brown girl, with dark, timid eyes and dusky complexion, pitiably over-dressed but with a certain elf-like beauty, which it was hard to believe that she could ever have inherited.
Breathing that sea breeze, so much more invigorating and balsamic as the land is approached, contemplating all the power of those preparations she was commissioned to destroy, all the power of that army which she was to combat alone--she, a woman with a few bags of gold--Milady compared herself mentally to Judith, the terrible Jewess, when she penetrated the camp of the Assyrians and beheld the enormous mass of chariots, horses, men, and arms, which a gesture of her hand was to dissipate like a cloud of smoke.
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Hawker, the old squire, had been a loose, unsatisfactory sort of person, had been on bad terms with his first wife (who died, as some said, of neglect), and had then married a flashy South American Jewess with a fortune.
His first wife was not dead when he married the Jewess; she was imprisoned on this island.
The Italian artists painted Italian Virgins, the Dutch painted Dutch Virgins, the Virgins of the French painters were Frenchwomen--none of them ever put into the face of the Madonna that indescribable something which proclaims the Jewess, whether you find her in New York, in Constantinople, in Paris, Jerusalem, or in the empire of Morocco.
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