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vespers

noun
/ˈvɛsˌpɝz/US

Etymology

From Middle English vespers, from Old French vespres (French vêpres), from Ecclesiastical Latin vesperae (“vespers”), substantivisation of relational Late Latin vesperus (“evening”), from vesper (“evening”) + -us. Euphemistic use first as Vèpres éphésiennes (“Ephesian Vespers”), coined in 1890 by historian Théodore Reinach by analogy with the Sicilian Vespers.

  1. derived from vesperus
  2. derived from vesperae
  3. derived from vespres
  4. inherited from vespers

Definitions

  1. The sixth of the seven canonical hours, an evening prayer service

  2. A massacre

  3. plural of vesper

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A Christian service held in the late afternoon or early evening

      A Christian service held in the late afternoon or early evening; evensong

The neighborhood

Derived

Sicilian Vespers, Asiatic Vespers

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