Quasimodo

UK: /ˌkwɔːzɪˈməʊdəʊ/

US: (kwä′sə mō′dō, -zə mō′-; It. kwä′zē mô′dô)

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Qua•si•mo•do  (kwä′sə mō′dō, -zə mō′-; It. kwä′zē mô′dô), n. 

Sal•va•to•re  (säl′vä tô′re), 1901–68, Italian poet: Nobel prize 1959.

Qua•si•mo•do  (kwä′sə mō′dō, -zə mō′-), n. 

1. See Low Sunday. 
2. Literature the ugly, humpbacked protagonist of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo.

• Late Latin, from the opening words of the introit antiphon for the Sunday:
  Quasi modo genitī infantēs
  … As just born children … (1 Pet. 2:2)
• 1840–50

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Quasimodo / ˌkwɔːzɪˈməʊdəʊ/ noun

2. a character in Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), a grotesque hunch-backed bellringer of the cathedral of Notre Dame
3. / kwaˈziːmodo/ Salvatore ( salvaˈtoːre ). 1901–68, Italian poet, whose early work expresses symbolist ideas and techniques. His later work is more concerned with political and social issues: Nobel prize for literature 1959

Etymology: (sense 1) from the opening words of the Latin introit for that day, quasimodo geniti infantes as new-born babies