vespers
noun/ˈvespəz/
/ˈvespərz/
[uncountable]- the service of evening prayer in some Christian Churches compare evensong, matinsWord Originlate 15th cent.: from Old French vespres ‘evensong’, from Latin vesperas (accusative plural), on the pattern of matutinas ‘matins’.
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