Gloria

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Glo·ri·a

(glôr′ē-ə)

a. A Latin doxology beginning with the words Gloria Patri.

b. A Latin doxology that is the second item of the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Mass and begins with the words Gloria in excelsis Deo.

2. A musical setting for either of these doxologies.

3. gloria A halo or nimbus.

[Middle English, from Late Latin Glōria, from Latin glōria, glory.]

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gloria

(ˈɡlɔːrɪə)

1. (Textiles) a silk, wool, cotton, or nylon fabric used esp for umbrellas

2. (Art Terms) a halo or nimbus, esp as represented in art

[C16: from Latin: glory]

Gloria

(ˈɡlɔːrɪə; -ˌɑː)

1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) any of several doxologies beginning with the word Gloria, esp the Greater and the Lesser Doxologies

2. (Music, other) a musical setting of one of these

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Glo•ri•a in Ex•cel•sis De•o

(ˈglɔr i ə ɪn ɛkˈsɛl sɪs ˈdeɪ oʊ, ˈgloʊr-)
n.

the hymn beginning “Glory in the highest to God.”

gloria

A Latin word meaning glory, used to mean a hymn in praise of God that begins with this word.

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These are the documents in the extraordinary case of the Gloria Scott, and this is the message which struck Justice of the Peace Trevor dead with horror when he read it."

They are endorsed outside, as you see, 'Some particulars of the voyage of the bark Gloria Scott, from her leaving Falmouth on the 8th October, 1855, to her destruction in N.

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Qui de contemnenda gloria libros scribunt, nomen, suum inscribunt.

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Then the candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: "Sic transit gloria mundi."

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I believe a nice rich brown would just suit Anne, and William Blair has some new gloria in that's real pretty.

Oh, how pretty it was--a lovely soft brown gloria with all the gloss of silk; a skirt with dainty frills and shirrings; a waist elaborately pintucked in the most fashionable way, with a little ruffle of filmy lace at the neck.

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I remember the first pretty dress I ever had--the brown gloria Matthew gave me for our school concert.