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noun

Stoup n.

A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids. (Scot.)

(Eccl.) A basin at the entrance of Roman Catholic churches for containing the holy water with which those who enter, dipping their fingers in it, cross themselves; called also holy-water stoup or holy-water font.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stoup" Quotes from Famous Books

... church dedicated to St. Germoe, or Germoc. The pinnacles of the Perpendicular tower are specially notable, while the gable-cross and corbels of the porch are of a kind rare in this part of the country. The body of the church is Decorated, but its font must be far earlier; it is rather like a huge stoup, of remarkably rude formation, and may perhaps be Saxon in date. But the structure known as St. Germoe's Chair, in the graveyard, is even more curious; it consists of three roofed sedilia, fronted by two pillared arches. W. C. Borlase thought that the erection was simply an altar-tomb, ...

— The Cornwall Coast • Arthur L. Salmon

... be your pint-stoup, And surely I'll be mine; And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet For auld ...

— Old Ballads • Various

... sorry for, as she saw that the bed of the other two was furnished with a holy water stoup and a little shrine with a waxen Madonna. There was only one looking-glass among the four, and not much apparatus either for washing or the toilet, but Miss Bridgeman believed that they would soon go to Richmond, where things would be ...

— A Reputed Changeling • Charlotte M. Yonge

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