See Also: quasimodo(medicine)
Quasimodo(dictionary)
Quasimodo(dictionary)
Quasimodo, Salvatore(encyclopedia)
Laver(medicine)
laver(dictionary)
laver(2)(dictionary)
laver(1)(dictionary)
Laver, Rod(ney George)(encyclopedia)
Salad of sea trout with laver bread(recipes)

laver(2) (iou) and Quasimodo (oh)


laver(2) (iou)



laver noun2. ME.
[Old French laveor, laveoir (mod. lavoir) formed as LAVATORY noun.]
A basin or bowl for washing; (occas.) any vessel for water. Formerly also, a piscina or a washing-trough in a monastic cloister. Now only poet. & rhet. ME.
b. In biblical translations and allusions: a large bronze vessel used by Jewish priests for washing. M16.
c. The basin of a fountain. arch. E17.
The baptismal font. Also fig., the spiritual purification of baptism; any spiritually cleansing agency. LME.
A process or instance of washing. Only in L17.
Comb.: laver-pot Heraldry a jug with a handle and a lid.

Quasimodo (oh)



the main character in the book The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo. He is an ugly hunchback (=someone whose back has a large raised part at the top) whose job is to ring the bells in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.