pyres
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In country churches in Oxfordshire there were silver chalices and patens, pyxes, censers, candlesticks, chrismatories, crosses, sanctus bells, and other articles of plate.
From English Villages by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
Then to please the females, he described to them the reliquaries, feretories, calices, crosiers, crosses, pyxes, monstrances, and other wonders ecclesiastical, and the goblets, hanaps, watches, clocks, chains, brooches, &c., so that their mouths watered.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
The word I have translated pyxes is ciborii, vessels for holding the Eucharist.
From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Symonds, John Addington
Medieval pyxes and ciboria are often beautiful examples of the goldsmith’s, enameller’s and metal-worker’s craft.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
Sometimes monstrances were made in the shape of a tower, or a covered chalice; sometimes in the form of images carrying silver pyxes, elaborately ornamented with many jewels.
From English Villages by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
