Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
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- adjective Attributive form of
incense boat , noun.
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Examples
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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 Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954
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The incense-boat is the vessel containing the incense for immediate use.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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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
The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912
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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.
The Life of Cesare Borgia Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 1912
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Four -- an incense-boat, a ewer of silver, a gold buckle and a cope worked in pearls.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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Four -- an incense-boat, a ewer of silver, a gold buckle and a cope worked in pearls.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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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.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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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.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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Four -- an incense-boat, a ewer of silver, a gold buckle and a cope worked in pearls.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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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.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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