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cruet

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cruet
Christianity either of a pair of small containers for the wine and water used in the Eucharist


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You must remember that mustard, vinegar, oil and so on vanished with the cruet and the burglar.
From the pepper cruet you may shake a cloud of something tasteless and melancholy, like volcanic dust.
exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice as he laid down the vinegar cruet and looked at her through his glasses.
 
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