[Sca-cooks] Aquamanile - What is it?

[Susan Fox-Davis]

When I first heard the term, I thought it had something to do with 
Aquaman.  Who knew?

I have a very nice owl-shaped aquamanile from THL Artemesia, who also 
happens to live in Caid but is currently the Court Potter to HRH Uther 
of An Tir at the moment.

Selene, wacky comic book fan as well

Pat wrote:

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