PurimTells the story of how Queen Esther saved the Jews from massacre and shows how she is still honored every year during Purim with a special service, a carnival, and a costume parade.
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\Pu"rim\, n. [Heb. p[=u]r, pl. p[=u]r[imac]m, a lot.] A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman. --Esther ix. 26.
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