vesper
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Mr. Sidebottom divides the gladiator’s day into 12 segments—from vesper to vesper—and devotes a chapter of his book to each.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
These ascents are called vespers flights, or vesper flights, after the Latin vesper for evening.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2020
Me, I sang Laura Nyro’s “Buy and Sell,” which says, among other things, “death tolls like a vesper bell.”
From Slate • Dec. 8, 2019
On another occasion, I ordered a vesper and got a negroni.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2014
"I have been here since we sang the vesper hymn."
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore
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