Piscina

In the vestibule or approaches to catholic churches is usually found a vase filled with water, (called Piscina,) and this water is considered holy.

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

Around the corner from the Accademia, on the way to the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Dorsoduro, there's a wonderful little caffe on Piscina Venier called Bar Da Gino.

Veniceblog: 2004

Around the corner from the Accademia, on the way to the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Dorsoduro, there's a wonderful little caffe on Piscina Venier called Bar Da Gino.

Bar Da Gino 2004

_Piscina_ -- a water-drain in a church placed on the right-hand side of an altar for the use of the priest.

Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story

Born either at Rome or at Piscina in the Abruzzi, of a very old

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

I forgot the Piscina of Quintilius Varus, where he used to keep certain little fishes.

Selected English Letters Various 1913

The deep window recess opposite the door was fitted up as a small chapel, with Aumbry, Piscina, and Sedilia.

Authorised Guide to the Tower of London W. J. Loftie 1875

-- Durandi Rat. de Ecclesia, &c. In ancient church contracts the term _Lavatorie_ was sometimes used for the Piscina, as in that for

The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. Matthew Holbeche Bloxam 1846

[186-*] Prope altare collocatur Piscina seu Lavacrum in quo manus lavantur.

The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. Matthew Holbeche Bloxam 1846

I have done very well with these two qualities, since, from the son of a fisherman of Piscina, I have become prime minister to the king of France; and in that position your majesty will perhaps acknowledge I have rendered some service to the throne of your majesty.

The Vicomte De Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836