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chalices

chalices is the plural of chalice.

Meaning of chalice

Noun

chalice (plural chalices)

  1. A large drinking cup, often having a stem and base and used especially for formal occasions and religious ceremonies.
    • [W]e but teach / Bloody Inſtructions, which, being taught, returne / To plague th' Inuentor. This euen-handed Iuſtice / Commends th' Ingredience of our poyſon'd Challice / To our owne lips.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    Synonyms:
    goblet
  2. A kind of water-cooled pipe for smoking cannabis.

Phrases with chalices

Questions about chalices

What is chalices the plural of?
Chalices is the plural of chalice.

Words near chalices in the dictionary

  1. chalice drum
  2. chalice drums
  3. chaliced
  4. chaliceful
  5. chalicelike
  6. chalices
  7. chalicist
  8. chalicists
  9. chalicosis
  10. chalicothere
  11. chalicotheres

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