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Meanings of shammes in English

Russian
шамаш

Official acting as a beadle, sexton or caretaker of a synagogue.

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Usage of shammes in English
1
Yes, François had learned the word for a Christian shammes in the meantime.
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2
Maybe this shammes would be different from all the other men.
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3
The red-haired man said his name was Markas Kral, shammes at the Pinkas Shul.
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4
He might have been mistaken for the shammes, or whatever they called it here.
Melnitz
5
Rabbi Loew said, My shammes, attend to God first.
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Kromy said, The new shammes of Jew Town.
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Besides, your duties as shammes are more important.
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Time to start earning that daler, shammes.
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Someone answered back: "Hey, Bernstein, he's the fifth shammes."
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10
So get a shammes to do it.
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But even a shammes can say the blessing over the bread and wine on my side of town.
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12
The shammes avoided looking directly into her eyes by fiddling with the tops of the porcelain spice jars.
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13
Take your change, you cheap shammes.
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14
She ran through the streets as if guided by some instinctual force until she found Benyamin the shammes.
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My colleagues offered me a permanent post as a shammes, since I was now a member of the Brotherhood.
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Either the accused, Jacob Federn, tells us who his accomplices were, or you personally deliver them to us, shammes.
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Translations for shammes
Shammes through the time