angelus

Alternative form of Angelus.

A male given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Angelo.

A Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation.

The bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service.

[…]and having eternal aves and angeluses rung in their ears;

The yodel in it brought to mind incongruous images, full of holes as a Swiss cheese: among the alpenhorns and cuckoo clocks, cowbells clunked and donged like angeluses gone awry.