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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse staup, from Proto-Germanic *staupo- (whence Old English stēap). See stoop (a vessel). More at stop.

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stoup (plural stoups)

  1. (obsolete) A bucket. [14th–20th c.]
  2. (archaic) A mug or drinking vessel. [from 16th c.]
  3. A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church. [from 16th c.]
    Synonym: font
    • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 26:
      He was seen [...] bathing in the holy water stoup as if he were its single and beholden bird, pushing aside weary French maids and local tradespeople with the impatience of a soul in physical distress.
    • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
      But, though I liked Morgan well enough, I did not greatly care for his smell, which, incredibly, considering his agnosticism, was not unlike that of stale water in a church stoup.
    • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 810:
      She saw nobody for the moment so that she entered the church formally dipping her fingers in the holy water stoup and signing herself.
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Verb

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stoup (third-person singular simple present stoups, present participle stouping, simple past and past participle stouped)

  1. Obsolete form of stoop.

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stoup f

  1. genitive plural of stoupa