Angelus

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Proper noun

1. A male given name.

Noun

Angelus (plural Angeluses)

1. A Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation (from its incipit, "Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariæ": "the Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary").
2. The bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service.
   • 1879, James Albert Harrison, Spain in Profile: A Summer Among the Olives and Aloes, page

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

   • 1998, Ciaran Carson, Last Night's Fun: A Book About Irish Traditional Music, page 151

     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.

Translations

• German: Angelusgebet
• Portuguese: ângelus

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