angelus

Definitions

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Angelo.
2. A Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation.
3. The bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service.

Equivalents

Examples

“[…]and having eternal aves and angeluses rung in their ears;”

“The yodel in it brought to mind⟳ incongruous images, full of holes as a Swiss cheese: among the alpenhorns and cuckoo clocks, cowbells clunked and donged like⟳ angeluses gone awry.”

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