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Definition of Houselling
1. housel [v] - See also: housel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Houselling
Literary usage of Houselling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms by Frederick George Lee (1877)
"houselling CLOTH.—A long strip of linen used to spread over the altar-rails when
the faithful ... houselling FOLK. — Those amongst the faithful in church ..."
2. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum by Montague Rhodes James (1895)
"Two boys hold the houselling-cloth. Two priests in white are (on /. ... R. and L.
Two youths hold the ends of a houselling-cloth. Behind it two priests, ..."
3. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1859)
"Every ritualist knows what the houselling cloth is—a cloth extended before the
communicants ... This houselling cloth is ordered in the Coronation office, ..."
4. The Edwardian Inventories for Buckinghamshire by James Edward Brown (1908)
"At Cublington we find " ij houselling towels," at Hadden- ham " ij towels ...
At East Claydon the houselling cloth was in actual use under the First Prayer ..."
5. A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms by Frederick George Lee (1877)
"houselling CLOTH. — A long strip of linen used to spread over the ... houselling FOLK.
— Those amongst the faithful in church who are prepared to receive ..."
6. The Ceremonies of the Mass by William McGarvey, Charles Philip Augustus Burnett (1905)
"If the acolytes who hold the houselling cloth are to receive the Communion, two
other acolytes will take their places and hold the cloth while they do so. ..."
7. The Mass and Its Folklore by John Hobson Matthews (1903)
"houselling-bread " meant the wafers for consecration (which were also termed ...
The " houselling- cloth " was the linen cloth laid over the altar- rails to ..."
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