QUASIMODO


Meaning of QUASIMODO in English

/kwah'seuh moh"doh, -zeuh moh"-/ ; It. /kwah'zee maw"daw/ , n.

Salvatore /sahl'vah taw"rdde/ , 1901-68, Italian poet: Nobel prize 1959.

/kwah'seuh moh"doh, -zeuh moh"-/ , n.

1. See Low Sunday .

2. the ugly, humpbacked protagonist of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo.

[ 1840-50; Quasi modo geniti infantes ... As just born children ... (1 Pet. 2:2) ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .