Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medieval legends, the holy vessel supposed to have been the “cup” used at the Last Supper. See
grail .
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Examples
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They bear the veiled sun like a sangreal aloft to the wavy marble flooring of stainless cloud.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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They bear the veiled sun like a sangreal aloft to the wavy marble flooring of stainless cloud.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Galahad, destined to achieve the quest of the sangreal.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Arimathea says to him: "Thou hast resembled me in two things in that thou hast seen the marvels of the sangreal, and in that thou has been a clean maiden".
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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a sangreal aloft to the wavy marble flooring of stainless cloud.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868
bilby commented on the word sangreal
"And I will that ye wit that this same day shall the adventures of the Sangreal, that is called the Holy, Vessel, begin."
- Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'.
September 8, 2009