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break_fast

break fast

See also: breakfast and break-fast

English

Noun

break fast (plural break fasts)

  1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of breakfast (meal eaten after fasting)
    • 2000, Nina Beth Cardin, The Tapestry of Jewish Time: A Spiritual Guide to Holidays (ISBN 0874416450), page 71:
      That is why the break fast at the end of Yom Kippur often has an air of achievement.