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chalice

/chal-is/US // ˈtʃæl ɪs //UK // (ˈtʃælɪs) //

圣杯,圣餐杯,杯子,长杯

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Ecclesiastical. a cup for the wine of the Eucharist or Mass.the wine contained in it.
    • : a drinking cup or goblet.
    • : a cuplike blossom.

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Examples

  • In 2019, he and a friend went viral when ESPN panned to them drinking from golden chalices.

  • As Davies writes, “If fixing a single letter in the genetic code of a fellow human being isn’t the coveted chalice of salvation, I don’t know what is.”

  • The second book, The Chalice, recently came out in paperback.

  • BH: Now tell me about the community of women you wrote and imagined in The Chalice—a priory of Dominican nuns.

  • The lamb stands upon an altar and bleeds into a chalice—the Holy Grail.

  • Specifically, the cup-sharing method, in which one chalice is filled and re-used by all parishioners.

  • Does this mean wiping the chalice or arranging flowers on the altar?

  • Across the left arm was the maniple, and in his hand the chalice covered with the paten.

  • Madame Chalice had been merely whimsical in sending these violets, which her gardener had brought her that very morning.

  • The "sire," fell on the ears of Madame Chalice like a mot in a play; but Valmond, living up to his part, was grave and solicitous.

  • Such as Madame Chalice—ah, she was a part of this brave fantasy, this dream of empire, this inspiring play!

  • As Madame Chalice had said, either as prince or barber, he was playing a terrible game.