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hours
1/ aʊəz /
plural noun
- a period regularly or customarily appointed for work, business, etc
- one's times of rising and going to bed (esp in the phrases keep regular, irregular, or late hours )
- an indefinite period of time
- Also called (in the Roman Catholic Church)canonical hours
- the seven times of the day laid down for the recitation of the prayers of the divine office
- the prayers recited at these times
- the small hoursthe small hours the hours just after midnight
- till all hourstill all hours until very late
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