1. vespers - Noun
2. Vespers - Proper noun
One of the little hours of the Breviary.
The evening song or service.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. Edward Gibbon
When it rains in the morning, take the plow and start sowing; when it rains between Vespers and nightfall, put on your boots. Sicilian Proverb
After the hour of vespers, between six and seven o'clock a fever appeared and remained permanently. Source: Internet
A large revolt on Sicily known as the Sicilian Vespers followed these attacks, that saw the Peninsula separating into the Kingdom of Naples. Source: Internet
Among his compositions written for the chapel were two complete sets of vespers, many graduals, offertories, and four orchestral masses. Source: Internet
Aragonese period In 1297, Pope Boniface VIII established on his own initiative (motu proprio) a hypothetical regnum Sardiniae et Corsicae (" Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica ") in order to settle the War of the Vespers diplomatically. Source: Internet