Sentence examples for book of hours from inspiring English sources
noun
An illuminated Christian devotional book, popular in the Middle Ages.
His first purchase was a 15th-century Book of Hours.
THE medieval book of hours was a novel, chapel and art gallery rolled into one.
Catherine's book of hours might have been partly an attempt to head off eternal damnation.
The beautifully illuminated Book of Hours made for King Francois I includes his own likeness.
The liturgical book covering the daily cycle is called the Hōrologion ("The Book of Hours").
He says in his "Book of Hours," "Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Kevin Young's new collection, "Book of Hours," is forthcoming from Knopf, in March.
It's as if a Book of Hours had been crossbred with an Amana appliance catalog.
If Catherine's book of hours ranks among the top dozen of its kind, it is not for lack of competition.
Rainey also collects books, and he shows the writer a facsimile of a 15th-century Flemish Book of Hours.
Each scene begins with a pastoral song, which echoes the medieval Book of Hours, a kind of almanac.
