Sephardic definition

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sephardic \Se*phar"dic\, a. [From Sephardim, a name applied to
     the Spanish Jews, fr. Sephard, name of a place where Jews
     were held in captivity (--Ob. 20).]
     Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Jews (the Sephardim,
     also called Spanish or Portuguese Jews) descended from Jewish
     families driven from Spain by the Inquisition.


     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

















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