stoup

Example Sentences

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They said holy water should be replaced more often in church stoups and a protective cloth installed on the grills separating priests and worshippers in confessional boxes.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2020

A recent visit to these places made me aware of the existence of the stoups.

From Notes and Queries, Number 215, December 10, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

But the Genevese civilization is the standard for these people, and they combat the Calvinism of it with missions, and have statues in their rooms, not to speak of holy water stoups.

From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire

Set me the stoups of wine70 upon that table.—

From Hamlet by Kean, Charles John

Fresh stoups, and from the choicest bins, were produced; nor was it till at a late, or rather early hour, that the revelers sought their chambers.

From Humorous Ghost Stories by Scarborough, Dorothy