Crossword clues for quasimodo
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quasimodo \Quas`i*mo"do\, n. [So called from the first words of
the Latin introit, quasi modo geniti infantes as newborn
babes,
--1 Pet. ii. 2.] (R. C. Ch.)
The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Low Sunday," 1706, Quasimodo Sunday, from Latin quasi modo, first words of introit for the first Sunday after Easter: quasi modo geniti infantes "as newborn babes" (1 Pet. ii:2). The hunchback in Victor Hugo's novel was supposed to have been abandoned as an infant at Notre Dame on this day, hence his name. For first element, see quasi; for second see mode (n.1).
Wikipedia
Quasimodo (from Latin, quasi modo) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo. Quasimodo was born with a hunchback and feared by the townspeople as a sort of monster, but he finds sanctuary in an unlikely love that is fulfilled only in death. The role of Quasimodo has been played by many actors in film and stage adaptations, including Lon Chaney, Sr. (1923) and Charles Laughton (1939), as well as Tom Hulce in the 1996 Disney animated adaptation. In 2010, a British researcher found evidence suggesting there was a real-life hunchbacked stone carver who worked at Notre Dame during the same period Victor Hugo was writing the novel and they may have even known each other.
Quasimodo is a student newspaper published by the Fremantle Student Association at the University of Notre Dame Australia. The magazine takes its name from Quasimodo, Victor Hugo's fictional bell-ringer and protagonist of Notre Dame de Paris
Quasimodo is the title character in Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Quasimodo may also refer to:
- Quasimodo (magazine), a University of Notre Dame Australia student newspaper
- Quasimodo (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
- Quasimodo (Disney), Disney's version of Victor Hugo's character from 1996's '' The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Quasimodo (music venue), a jazz club in Berlin, Germany
- Quasimodo Sunday, another name for the Octave of Easter
Quasimodo is a music venue in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is located in the basement of the building of the Delphi Filmpalast, a former dance hall and movie theater which is also home to the Quasimodo Café and the Vaganten Bühne theatre. The club offers accommodation for up to 350 seated guests. Rock, Latin music and world music are also presented in concerts along with its more traditional emphasis on modern jazz, blues, soul and funk. Its programme features renowned international artists as well as musicians from the local Berlin and national scene.
Usage examples of "quasimodo".
Quasimodo sur la borne, la Esmeralda sur le toit, Phoebus sans doute aux pieds de Fleur-de-Lys.
The general opinion was that the day had arrived when, according to agreement, Quasimodo, or the devil, was to carry away Claude Frollo, the sorcerer.
MY SALVAGE-YARD FURNITURE (TOO SCARRED AND TACKY to meet the standards of the thrift shops that sold to Stormy), my paperback books neatly arranged on shelves made of stacked bricks and boards, my framed posters of Quasimodo as played by Charles Laughton and Hamlet as played by Mel Gibson and ET from the movie of the same name (three fictional characters with whom I identify for different reasons), the cardboard Elvis perpetually smiling.
At one time the spectator would be seized with affright, on beholding at the top of one of the towers an odd-looking dwarf, climbing, twining, crawling on all fours, descending externally into the abyss, leaping from one projecting point to another, and fumbling in the body of some sculptured Gorgon: it was Quasimodo unnesting the crows.
Hiram White, an elderly man with a humped back who shambled around his wrenches and engine belts like Quasimodo amid the bells—sat at his desk, his head cocked toward a radio.