Quasimodo

noun

Qua·​si·​mo·​do ˌkwä-si-ˈmō-(ˌ)dō 

ˌkwä-zi-

: the Sunday following Easter

This formal extension or anticlimax of Easter Week is known as … Low Sunday to English-speaking Christians, except for Catholics everywhere, who call it Quasimodo after the first words of its Latin Mass …

—Christian Roy

The name Quasimodo Sunday comes from the Introit of the mass which is said on this day.

—Rev. Jon Bergen

Álvarez Maldonado left Cuzco on Quasimodo or Low Sunday, two weeks after the campaign was announced …

—John Hemming

called also Low Sunday

Word History

Etymology

Medieval Latin quasi modo geniti infantes as newborn babes (words of the introit for Low Sunday)

First Known Use

1607, in the meaning defined above

Biographical Definition

Quasimodo

biographical name

Qua·​si·​mo·​do kwä-ˈzē-mə-ˌdō 

Salvatore ˌsäl-vä-ˈtō-(ˌ)rā  1901–1968 Italian poet and critic