little office

1. 1.

   a Roman Catholic office honoring the Virgin Mary; similar to but shorter than the Divine Office

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   Roman Catholic

Questions about little office

What does little office mean?

little office means "a Roman Catholic office honoring the Virgin Mary; similar to but shorter than the Divine Office".

Is little office a common word?

little office is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.