stoup
Example Sentences
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Father Marc Lyden-Smith said a police officer had smelled urine from a stoup and said he found it "incredible" anyone could do such a thing.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2015
Holy water is used by Catholics to make the sign of the cross when they come into church and the stoup is usually by the entrance.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2015
I threw them down and said to him, "Count, give me a stoup of wine and they are yours."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various
Having made this self-confession, she stepped back into the doorway; and, standing upon the stoup, awaited the unwelcome visitor with an air of defiant indifference.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
In the south-eastern wall of the porch is a stoup, which formerly was open both within the porch and outside, though now it is closed outside.
From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by James Conway Walter
