Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Sephardic

Sephardic , adjective

[From Sephardim, a name applied to the Spanish Jews, from Sephard, name of a place where Jews were held in captivity (Ob. 20).]

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Jews (the Sephardim, also called Spanish or Portuguese Jews) descended from Jewish families driven from Spain by the Inquisition. — Ob. 20