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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vespers/ˈvespəz/
noun a service of evening prayer in the Divine Office of the Western Christian Church (sometimes said earlier in the day).

■ a service of evening prayer in other churches.

– origin C15: from OFr. vespres ‘evensong’, from L. vesperas, on the pattern of matutinas ‘matins’.



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