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psalmbook

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[sahm-book] / ˈsɑmˌbʊk /

noun

  1. a book containing psalms for liturgical or devotional use.

Etymology

Origin of psalmbook

First recorded in 1150–1200, psalmbook is from Middle English salm boc. See psalm, book

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John Pierpont Morgan presently went to see Mrs. Noyes's heirloom: the famed Luttrell Psalter, an exquisitely illuminated manuscript psalmbook made in East Anglia about 1340 for rich Sir Geoffrey Luttrell.

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