holy-water sprinkle

English

Noun

holy-water sprinkle (plural holy-water sprinkles)

A type of brush used to sprinkle holy water. [from 15th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  She alway smyld, and in her hand did hold / An holy-water-sprinckle, dipt in deowe […]

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