book of hours

短语

时祷书

词形变化

books of hours 复数 books of hours

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An illuminated Catholic devotional book, popular in the Middle Ages.

    时祷书

    历史 宗教
  2. 2.

    Synonym of horologion, the equivalent of the breviary in Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism.

    宗教

词源

From the books' usual division of prayers according to the canonical hours.

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