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brisYiddish word for the circumcision ceremony, from bris milah, Ashkenazi pronunciation of brit milah "covenant of circumcision."
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bris(n) the Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life
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brisIl conte di San Bris, governor of the Louvre, was father of Valentina, and leader of the St. Bartholomew massacre. (Meyerbeer’s Opera: Gli Ugonotti.)
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