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What is a nocturn?

What is a nocturn? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Christianity) The night office of the Christian liturgy of the Hours, such as is performed in monasteries.
  2. (Christianity) A portion of the psalter used during nocturns.
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At half-past three in the afternoon the first nocturn began, with the Psalms, Lessons, etc.
Tropics did beat Nocturn in the Hopeful Stakes at Newmarket on good to soft, but I would be wary of accepting either of them will be suited by today's surface.
The elders did not observe the nocturn that night until prime on the morrow.
After the repetition of the Antiphon at the end of the last Psalm of a Nocturn, is said the appropriate Versicle and Respond according to the Office of the Day.
In the 1519 Breviarium Romanum it was the ninth lesson of the third nocturn.
For the more adventurous ones we offer a day in the trees of an Adventure Ropecourse, the nocturn fun of target lazer game or a canoeing trip down the river Sûre.

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