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Baruch

noun

Economic advisor to United States Presidents (1870-1965). Synonyms: Bernard Baruch, Bernard Mannes Baruch.

A disciple of and secretary for the prophet Jeremiah.

An Apocryphal book ascribed to Baruch. Synonym: Book of Baruch.

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... happened that those to whom nature had been less indulgent than to others, remained there a long time before any person offered to perform with them the condition of their release. A custom, we think, some times alluded to in scripture, and expressly delineated in the book of Baruch: "The women also, with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume; but, if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow that she was not thought worthy as herself, nor her cord broken." Though this infamous law was at first strictly observed ...

— Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World • Anonymous

... was a furious pink tint on the distant horizon, and borne on miles of the stiffly thin air came the pungency of burning wood and flesh across the snowlight. Flesh! The red sky lay off in the direction of Kishinef. What was it? The straw roof of a burning barn? The precious flesh of an ox? What? Reb Baruch, with a married daughter and eleven children in Kishinef, sat up all night and ...

— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst

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