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Quasimodo
[In sense 1 f. L quasi modo, the first wds of the introit for this day.
In sense 2 f. the name of the hunchback in Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris.]
1 In full Quasimodo Sunday. The Sunday after Easter, Low Sunday.
2 Surfing. An act of riding on a wave in a crouched position with one arm forward and one arm back.
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Excerpted from Oxford Talking Dictionary
Copyright © 1998 The Learning Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
[In sense 1 f. L quasi modo, the first wds of the introit for this day.
In sense 2 f. the name of the hunchback in Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris.]
1 In full Quasimodo Sunday. The Sunday after Easter, Low Sunday.
2 Surfing. An act of riding on a wave in a crouched position with one arm forward and one arm back.
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Excerpted from Oxford Talking Dictionary
Copyright © 1998 The Learning Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.