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Meaning of gribenes | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈɡɹɪbənəs/

Definitions

A snack food in Eastern European Jewish cuisine, combining cracklings of chicken or goose skin with fried onions.

uncountable

Examples

“Oy, it was such a shanda. I should never buy gribenes from a mohel. It's so chewy.”
“But the only gribenes I ate growing up came from my grandmother’s South Beach kitchen.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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