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Quasimodo is the main character in Victor Hugo’s book The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831). He is the in the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. His back has a large raised part, and the story treats him as ugly; people in the book are often cruel because of how he looks. His job is to ring the bells. The name is not a random French name. He is found as a baby on Quasimodo Sunday — the Sunday after Easter — and named after that day. The old Latin church text for the day begins quasi modo geniti infantes, “as newborn babies.” So the name is a church-calendar name, not a description of his body. In English we keep Quasimodo as this character’s name; it is not an ordinary noun. People sometimes stretch it as a rude label for someone’s looks — you may hear that, but it is , and it is not the sense filed here.
卡西莫多（台灣多半先認識「鐘樓怪人」這本書／這角色）
組成From the opening of the day’s old Latin Mass: quasi modo geniti infantes, “as newborn babes.” Hugo’s hunchback is named from that; the character-name comes from the first etymology.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Quasimodonoun詞源 1/ˌkwɑ.ziˈmoʊ̯.doʊ̯/
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ChristianityThe first Sunday after Easter Sunday.
- Holonyms: Easter Week < Eastertide < Octave of Easter < Eastertime < calendar
Quasimodonoun詞源 2/ˌkwɑ.ziˈmoʊ̯.doʊ̯/
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A surfing trick performed while crouching.
- In the end, why not be happy with both, with the BMXes and the pentathlons, with the swans of synchro and the Quasimodos of wrestling? Sweet.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。