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stoup

[ US /ˈstup/ ]
[ UK /stˈuːp/ ]
NOUN
  1. basin for holy water
  2. an archaic drinking vessel

How To Use stoup In A Sentence

  • A factory document of 1743 reveals that a series of holy water stoups had been commissioned by the nuns in the Royal Convent of Unshod Carmelites in Madrid.
  • They stopped for a stoup of water at the fountain in the middle of the graveyard before going through the south porch of the cathedral. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • II.3 has Iago left alone after Cassio's departure, after he has wheedled him into drinking a stoup of wine.
  • Eli even invited him to break a manchet and drink a stoup of wine to give him heart for his journey. The Cloister and the Hearth
  • Carrying a silver flask and a tiny glass stoup, the innkeep came hurrying back. A TIME OF WAR
  • _Stoup_, or _stowp_, a kind of high narrow jug or dish with a handle for holding liquids. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
  • One appeared to be a holy water stoup such as was found in Roman Catholic churches, of a plain character.
  • I tell thee, Alan, I have seen a better seated on the fourth round of a ladder, and painting a bare-breeched Highlander, holding a pint-stoup as big as himself, and a booted Lowlander, in a bobwig, supporting a glass of like dimensions; the whole being designed to represent the sign of the Salutation. Redgauntlet
  • Sometimes she took a bottle with her to fill with holy water for the pink china stoup which hung by Mam's makeshift bed. THE GOLDEN LION
  • On the walls there were rosaries, medals, several pictures of the Virgin, and a holy-water stoup made out of a coconut.
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