vesper : Idioms & Phrases


Sicilian vespers

  • the great massacre of the French in Sicily, in the year 1282, on the evening of Easter Monday, at the hour of vespers.
Webster 1913

vesper mouse

  • noun American woodland mouse with white feet and underparts
    Peromyscus leucopus; white-footed mouse.
WordNet

Vesper sparrow

  • noun common North American finch noted for its evening song
    grass finch; Pooecetes gramineus.
WordNet
  • the grass finch. See under Grass.
Webster 1913