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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
angelus /ˈandʒ(ə)ləs/

▶noun a Roman Catholic devotion commemorating the Incarnation of Jesus and including the Hail Mary.

■ a ringing of bells announcing this.

– origin C17: from the L. phr. Angelus domini ‘the angel of the Lord’, the opening words of the devotion.

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