vesper : Idioms & Phrases
Sicilian vespers
- the great massacre of the French in Sicily, in the year 1282, on the evening of Easter Monday, at the hour of vespers.
Webster 1913
vesper mouse
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noun American woodland mouse with white feet and underparts
Peromyscus leucopus; white-footed mouse.
WordNet
Vesper sparrow
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noun common North American finch noted for its evening song
grass finch; Pooecetes gramineus.
WordNet
- the grass finch. See under
Grass .