[Sca-cooks] Aquamanile - What is it?

[Pat]

I thought I knew, as my Grandmother always called her pottery hand-washing basin an aquamanile.  Then you guys started talking about harts and cats.  So I looked it up.  Most dictionaries say it is an ewer or pitcher.  However, the New Catholic Dictionary says it's the basin a priest washes his hands in during mass...
The latin means water basin...
I suppose it is another of those words whose meaning has emigrated from it's original object to another closely associated with it.


Lady Anne du Bosc
known as Mordonna the Cook
Shire of Thorngill, Meridies
Mundanely, Pat Griffin of Millbrook, AL