holy-water sprinkle

English

Noun

holy-water sprinkle (plural holy-water sprinkles)

  1. A type of brush used to sprinkle holy water. [from 15th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
      She alway smyld, and in her hand did hold / An holy-water-sprinckle, dipt in deowe […].

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