Tallis

[tal-is]

Tal·lis

[tal-is]
noun
Thomas, c1505–85, English organist and composer, especially of church music.
Also, Tallys, Talys.
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Tallis is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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tallis or tallith (ˈtɑlis, tɑˈlit)
 
n
Judaism a fringed shawl worn by Jewish men during morning prayers
 
[from Hebrew, literally: a cover]
 
tallith or tallith
 
n
 
[from Hebrew, literally: a cover]

Tallis (ˈtælɪs)
 
n
Thomas. ?1505--85, English composer and organist; noted for his music for the Anglican liturgy

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tallis

prayer shawl worn by male Jews during the daily morning service (shaharit); it is also worn by the leader of the service during the afternoon service (minha). On Yom Kippur, males wear it for all five services and on Tisha be-Av only during the afternoon service

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