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A male given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Angelo. examples
plural Angeluses
A Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation. examples
The bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service. quotations examples
[…] and having eternal aves and angeluses rung in their ears;
1879, James Albert Harrison, Spain in Profile: A Summer Among the Olives and Aloes
The yodel in it brought to mind incongruous images, full of holes as a Swiss cheese: among the alpenhorns and cuckoo clocks, cowbells clunked and donged like angeluses gone awry.
1998, Ciaran Carson, Last Night's Fun: A Book About Irish Traditional Music, page 151