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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A vessel, frequently of a boat-like shape (that is, with a hollow, rounded oblong body rising at the ends), used to hold incense for transfer to the censer or thurible.
Wiktionary
- adj. Attributive form of incense boat, noun.
Examples
“This was a little golden incense-boat full of little greenish grains of gum, which he laid on the table before the Infant Jesus.”
“The incense-boat is the vessel containing the incense for immediate use.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
“Behind the cardinal follows an acolyte with the censer and incense-boat and another with the holy water and the aspersorio, and behind these again two prelates with a Missal and a candle.”
“Behind the cardinal follows an acolyte with the censer and incense-boat and another with the holy water and the aspersorio, and behind these again two prelates with”
“Hola! ma cherie, I wish to leave with you my gold-work, my velvet, my silk, my feather bed, my incense-boat, my ewer, my naping linen, and all the rest of it.”
“Four -- an incense-boat, a ewer of silver, a gold buckle and a cope worked in pearls.”
“Holà! ma chérie, I wish to leave with you my gold-work, my velvet, my silk, my feather bed, my incense-boat, my ewer, my naping linen, and all the rest of it.”
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