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12 Christianity and/or Biblical vocabulary words
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stoup
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synonyms: bénitier, font ???
tags: [christianity]
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Definition:1. A vessel of liquor; a flagon.2. font placed near the entrance of a church, as a receptacle for holy water.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---A vessel to hold liquor: a vessel containing a size or half a pint, is so called at Cambridge.Francis Grose. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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also spelled stoop
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Go, get thee to Yaughan*; fetch me a stoup of liquor.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
*Yaughan is possibly the name of a local potman (near the Globe theatre)
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To the right and left, like guardians, marble angels hold stoups for holy water.
Melania G. Mazzucco. Limbo (Virginia Jewiss translation), p.212 (2014)
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There was a small table at the back of the chapel, covered with a linen cloth, bearing the stoup of holy water,
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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