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plural mikvehs or mikveot or mikvos or mikvot or mikvoth
(Judaism) A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed. quotations examples
On the night before her wedding Channa Washinsky would certainly have immersed herself in the ritually cleansing waters of the mikveh.
2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 197
Adjacent were the remains of a mikvah bath for the ritual purification of women, and a kosher abattoir for the ritual slaughter of beasts [...].
2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 365