Definitions
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- noun See Holy Grail, under
grail .
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- noun (legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper
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Examples
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After all, the idea just comes from playing around with a single French word sangraal, and we have already seen the difficulties that arise from any hypothesis that rests on the idea of the maintenance of a ‘pure’ bloodline through the ages.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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After all, the idea just comes from playing around with a single French word sangraal, and we have already seen the difficulties that arise from any hypothesis that rests on the idea of the maintenance of a ‘pure’ bloodline through the ages.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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This is based on the idea that the original French sangraal, which is usually taken as san graal Holy Grail, should properly be rendered as sang real—the royal blood, which they took to mean a bloodline.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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This is based on the idea that the original French sangraal, which is usually taken as san graal Holy Grail, should properly be rendered as sang real—the royal blood, which they took to mean a bloodline.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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All this prompted Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln to hypothesize that the mysterious Grail represented a real lineage—abloodline.34 And they came up with the famous play on words that gave their book its title: that the word used in some of the early romances to describe the object of the quest,sangraal orsangreal, has for centuries been broken in the wrong place.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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All this prompted Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln to hypothesize that the mysterious Grail represented a real lineage—abloodline.34 And they came up with the famous play on words that gave their book its title: that the word used in some of the early romances to describe the object of the quest,sangraal orsangreal, has for centuries been broken in the wrong place.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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All this prompted Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln to hypothesize that the mysterious Grail represented a real lineage—abloodline.34 And they came up with the famous play on words that gave their book its title: that the word used in some of the early romances to describe the object of the quest,sangraal orsangreal, has for centuries been broken in the wrong place.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
mercy commented on the word sangraal
The San Graal or sangraal was a chalice made from a single stone which was revered in the Middle Ages because it supposedly caught the last drops of Christ's blood as he was taken down from the cross.
July 13, 2008