Definition of Sephardi
: a member of the occidental branch of European Jews settling in Spain and Portugal and later in the Balkans, the Levant, England, the Netherlands, and the Americas
also
: one of their descendants — compare ashkenazi
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The first known use of Sephardi was in 1851
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