[Sca-cooks] Aquamanile - What is it?
Susan Fox-Davis
selene at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 22 08:58:01 PDT 2005
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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