book of hours
Americannoun
noun
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Reached at her Dallas home, she said a dealer asked if she wanted to hold a book of hours — an illuminated manuscript used to help laypeople pray — in her hands.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Step inside the world’s most beautiful calendar, as Jason Farago, a critic for The Times, guides you through an invaluable 15th-century book of hours, in which science, religion and art coalesce.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
The star of its stunning exhibition of mostly 16th-century French material is a book of hours once owned by Francis I of France.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2011
Lazy, hazy days of summer-when the sun caressed the contours of a kitchen table, or of his basset hounds, or of his wife-provided Bonnard's book of hours.
From Time Magazine Archive
And so, a few years earlier, possessing the pamphlet and knowing the hiding-place in which Marie Antoinette had concealed the document, Arsene Lupin had ended by laying his hand on the famous book of hours.
From The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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