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tallis   (TTS Sound)

The noun tallis has 2 senses

• Tallis, Thomas Tallis -- (English organist and composer of church and secular music; was granted a monopoly in music printing with William Byrd (1505-1585))


• prayer shawl, tallith, tallis -- ((Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer)