Word: ampulla
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...four Knights of the Garter, gathering about their Queen, raised a cloth-of-gold canopy above her. The Dean of Westminster poured a spoonful of holy oil (containing perfumes of orange blossom, roses, cinnamon and jasmine, mixed with musk and ambergris) from an eagle-shaped vessel called the Ampulla. The Archbishop moistened his finger in the oil and made the sign of the cross on both the Queen's hands, on her breast and on the crown of her head. He spoke the ancient words: "As kings, priests and prophets were anointed, and as Solomon was anointed king...
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