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stoup noun [ stuːp ]

• a basin for holy water, especially on the wall near the door of a Roman Catholic church for worshippers to dip their fingers in before crossing themselves.
Origin: Middle English (in the sense ‘pail, small cask’): from Old Norse staup, of Germanic origin; related to the verb steep2.


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