Sangrail

English

Alternative forms

• Sangraal, Sangreal

Etymology

From Middle English Seint Graal, from Old French saint graal, saint greal (“Holy Grail”).

Proper noun

Sangrail

1. (now rare, poetic) The Holy Grail.
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XI:

     Ryght so there cam by the holy vessell, the Sankegreall, wyth all maner of swetnesse and savoure – but they cowde nat se redyly who bare the vessell.

   • 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Introduction to Canto First: To William Stewart Rose, Esq.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, page 17:

     A sinful man, and unconfessed, / He took the Sangreal’s holy quest, […]

Related terms

• grail
• saint

Further reading

• Holy Grail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Algarins