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In ornately decorated vestments, dozens of priests and officiants took part, swinging smoking incense censers and chanting the liturgy.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2024
There is some ecclesiastical flash, in the form of bejeweled crucifixes and gold-plated censers, but this is primarily an exhibition of book illustration, unlike any other medieval manuscript show you’re likely to see.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2018
Velvet drapes and kneeling pillows, shafts of white hyacinth and censers wafting clouds of heady frankincense felt like a lot to absorb on a Monday morning.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2018
The smell of frankincense deepens and, over the heads of at least 10 rows of people in front of me, I just barely see wisps of smoke trailing into the air from censers.
From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2016
She’d make me swing stinky censers around the counter, at the druggist, at the customers.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
