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streimel

streimel is the alternative form of shtreimel.

Meaning of shtreimel

Noun

shtreimel (plural shtreimels or shtreimlech)

  1. (Judaism) A fur hat, usually worn by some married Haredi Jewish men on Shabbat and during Jewish holidays and other festive occasions.
    • My idea of a walk, influenced by Kazin and honed over these last nine years that I’ve lived in New York, involves a freewheeling thoughtfulness powered by the legs but fed by observation, a physical and mental stream of consciousness nudged this way and that by an infinite number of human...2007 August 19, Nicole Krauss, “The Walker and the Walk”, in New York Times

Forms of streimel

pluralstreimels
pluralstreimlech

Questions about streimel

What is streimel the alternative form of?
Streimel is the alternative form of shtreimel.

Words near streimel in the dictionary

  1. streights
  2. streigne
  3. streigned
  4. streignes
  5. streigning
  6. streimel
  7. streimels
  8. streimlech
  9. Streisand
  10. Streisand effect
  11. Streisand effects

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Adapted from Wiktionary: streimel (page history and authors); shtreimel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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