gesang, noun
/xəˈsaŋ/
- Forms:
- Also formerly gezang.
- Plurals:
- gesange/xəˈsaŋə/, formerly gesangen.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans (earlier Dutch gezang), hymn.
1. obsolete. A hymn. Frequently in the plural.
1810 G. Barrington Acct of Voy. 183Excepting the Bible and William Sluiter’s Gesangen, or songs out of the Bible done into verse by the Sternhold and Hopkins [sic] of Holland, a book of any kind is very seldom to be seen in any of their houses.
1934 C.P. Swart Supplement to Pettman. 56Gesang,..Some of the songs in the hymn-book of the Dutch Reformed Church are so termed.
‖2. combinations
1896 M.A. Carey-Hobson At Home in Tvl 358His wares comprised all the various articles they were likely to require between the times of visiting the town, such as calicoes, prints, dress goods and moleskins;..crockery ware, Gesang-boeken, looking-glasses and clasp-knives.
1968 K. McMagh Dinner of Herbs 14It had been the custom for elderly folk to have a couple of slaves precede them to church..whilst another would bear the family’s tooled leather ‘gesang boeke’ and Bibles, with their heavy brass clasps.
A hymn. Frequently in the plural.
, a hymn book.
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