different between tallish vs tallis

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tall +? -ish

tallish (not comparable)

tallis (plural tallises or talleitim or tallisim or tallism)

Alternative form of tallit
- 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, 1994, “The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life,” p. 202,^[1]
  […] the congregants struggle to touch their lips to some part of my new blue Ohrbach’s suit, while the old men press forward to touch their tallises to my sparkling London Character shoes.

A variant primarily used by Ashkenazic Jews and Yiddish speakers.

tallis

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