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shofar - What does it mean?

Definition of 'shofar'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (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.