book of hours
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the books' usual division of prayers according to the canonical hours.
Noun[edit]
book of hours (plural books of hours)
- (Christianity, chiefly historical) An illuminated Catholic devotional book, popular in the Middle Ages.
- (Christianity) Synonym of horologion, the equivalent of the breviary in Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism.
Translations[edit]
illuminated devotional book from the Middle Ages
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