lunas

Noun (1)

luna (plural lunas)

1. A luna moth: a member of species Actias luna.
   • “Gee,” whispered Oliver. He sat there staring. “A luna! I never thought I’d see a real luna!”1944, Elizabeth Enright, Then There Were Five, Farrar & Rinehart, page 80
2. (chiefly Catholicism and Anglicanism) A lunette: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
   • The Bread of Angels is first taken from the tabernacle, where it rests in the luna, and placed upon the altar, covered with a corporal. After genuflecting, the priest puts the luna containing the Blessed Sacrament on its throne—the monstrance—and elevates it […]1907 May, “Dominicanus”, “The Rosary and the Blessed Sacrament”, in the Dominican Friars, The Rosary Magazine, Volume 30, Number 5, page 494

   Synonyms:

   lunette, lunula

Noun (2)

luna (plural luna or lunas)

1. (Hawaii) A foreman on a plantation.
   • There are several reasons why the Hawaiian-born Japanese boys and girls do not take kindly to plantation labor, but one of the chief reasons is the objection to the kind of lunas who oversee the work of the laborers.1922 June, U. G. Murphy, “The Japanese Problem in Hawaii: How the Task of Christianizing and Americanizing the Oriental is Progressing”, in The Friend, volume 91, number 6, page 130

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