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chalice

Cup, usually of precious metal, used in celebrating the Eucharist in the Christian church.

Chalices can take many forms, and may be extremely elaborate in design and decoration or very plain. In some churches, the chalice is filled with wine and then offered in turn to the people who are taking Holy Communion. In others, such as the Baptist Church, wine is put into thimble-sized individual glasses, and the people taking Communion wait until everyone is ready so that they can all drink together in the fellowship of commemoration.



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A poet admires the bee sucking from the chalice of a flower and says it exists to suck the fragrance of flowers.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
He therefore bought a telescope, which enabled him to watch as accurately as did the owner himself every progressive development of the flower, from the moment when, in the first year, its pale seed-leaf begins to peep from the ground, to that glorious one, when, after five years, its petals at last reveal the hidden treasures of its chalice.
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To us, over the golden grasses, came the Story Girl, carrying in her hand a single large poppy, like a blood-red chalice filled with the wine of August wizardry.
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