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stoohp

  • n  an archaic drinking vessel
  • n  basin for holy water

  • My boys went wild for the veal, meatball and pasta stoup, as she calls it, and, like her audience, were quickly softened to putty in her kitchen-confident hands, disarmed of their .
  • Like Sister Luke of The Nun's Story, she suffers the shock of initiation: an austere cell so cold that the holy-water stoup is sometimes frozen; the regimen of the "custody of .
  • As fast as he could he baptized all comers, emptying stoup after stoup of holy water until his tongue grew thick with blessings and his mighty arm was limp.
News & Articles

  • Beer bandito bluffed cashier with rodent ruse
    Fort Pierce cops reportedly spotted suspected beer bandito Ray Stoup, 26, running out of a Fort Pierce convenience store with two cases of Bud Light. reports Will Greenlee in his Off the Beat blog for TCpalm in Stuart.        
    June 9, 2013 - Sun-Sentinel
Quotes

  • John Gladwin in AFP
    Some churches have a stoup for holy water near the entrance to the church door, and people are invited to dip a finger in this, and to make the sign of the cross as a reminder of their baptism,the Right Reverend John Gladwin said.

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