Word: ostensoria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholic stay-at-home could imagine the pretentious beauty of the masses & other ceremonies; he could picture thurifers, masters of ceremonies, acolytes in cassocks, surplices; be-mitered bishops, birettaed priests; gaudy canopies, ornate chasubles, elaborate dalmatics, humeral veils; bejewelled chalices, ostensoria, ciboria...