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shofar
shofar
English
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Noun
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shofar (plural shofars or shofroth or shofarot or shofaroth)
- (Judaism) A ram’s-horn trumpet
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
- Thaddeus the fluteplayer had, it seems, found a ram’s horn or shofar, and he was blowing this not in the normal manner of an angry summons but so as to produce a melody of four notes, like a camp call to dinner or parade.
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked: