Judas cup
noun
1An ornamental mazer used by the monks of St Cuthbert's Priory at Durham at a special ceremony on Maundy Thursday (now historical ).
2Attributive designating a version of this ceremony revived at Durham Cathedral in 1998.
Origin
Late 16th century.
- the Pamirs
- the Pandects
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- the Paris Commune
- the Parquet
- the Paschal Lamb
- the Passion
- the path of least resistance
- the patter of tiny feet
- the pen is mightier than the sword
- the Pennines
- the penny dropped
- the People
- the pit of one's (or the) stomach
- the plot thickens
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