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Sangrail

/ ˈsæŋɡrɪəl; sæŋˈɡreɪl /

noun

  1. another name for the Holy Grail
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Sangrail1

C15: from Old French Saint Graal. See saint , Holy Grail
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Example Sentences

I've never found him quite as devastatingly debonair as Clovis Sangrail, with his mulberry eyes and lowered dexter eyelid.

Another was Clovis Sangrail, a young man much given to the kind of "gorgeous hoax" that might scandalize a dull house party.

That is the key-note of Parsifal, the Knight of the Sangrail.

Klingsor, an impure knight, who has been refused admittance to the order of the "Sangrail," enters into a compact with the powers of evil—by magic acquires arts of diabolical fascination—fills his palace and gardens with enchantments, and wages bitter war against the holy knights, with a view of corrupting them, and ultimately, it may be, of acquiring for himself the "Sangrail," in which all power is believed to reside.

It was allowed, however, that Titurel the Chief had grown extremely aged, but it was not allowed that he could die in the presence of the Sangrail.

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