communion plate
Americannoun
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The next year, at a service in Iowa, Trump attempted to put money in the communion plate.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2020
He has mistaken the communion plate for a collection plate.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2019
He remained in Boston through the siege, and preserved the communion plate of the Old South Church by burying it in his uncle Mason's cellar.
From Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 by Winslow, Anna Green
The altar piece was the gift of Basil Earl of Denbigh; and the communion plate, consisting of 182 ounces, that of Mary Carless.
From An History of Birmingham (1783) by Hutton, William
Oliver Cromwell surrounded the College, took Dr. Beale a prisoner, and, to equalise matters, confiscated the communion plate and other valuables.
From St. John's College, Cambridge by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)
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