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vesper

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ves·per  (vspr)
n.
1. A bell that summons worshipers to vespers.
2. Vesper The evening star, especially Venus.
3. Archaic Evening.
[Middle English, evening star, from Latin, evening; see wes-pero- in Indo-European roots.]
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Noun1.vesperVesper - a planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky
evening star, Hesperus
2.vesper - a late afternoon or evening worship service
divine service, religious service, service - the act of public worship following prescribed rules; "the Sunday service"
placebo - (Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead
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It was far down the afternoon; and when all the spearings of the crimson fight were done: and floating in the lovely sunset sea and sky, sun and whale both stilly died together; then, such a sweetness and such plaintiveness, such inwreathing orisons curled up in that rosy air, that it almost seemed as if far over from the deep green convent valleys of the Manilla isles, the Spanish land-breeze, wantonly turned sailor, had gone to sea, freighted with these vesper hymns.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
The hour hath come for all light-dreading people, the vesper hour and leisure hour, when they do not--"take leisure.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
The bells are going for daily vesper service, and he must needs attend it, one would say, from his haste to reach the open Cathedral door.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Dickens, Charles View in context
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