angelus

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Angelus.
2. A Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation.
3. The bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service.

   “[…]and having eternal aves and angeluses rung in their ears;”

   “The yodel in it brought to mind incongruous images, full of holes as a Swiss cheese: among the alpenhorns and cuckoo clocks, cowbells clunked and donged like angeluses gone awry.”

name

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Angelo.