lustral

Example Sentences

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He poured over her the lustral water symbolic of purification and conferred upon her jeweled decorations denoting her rank.

From Washington Times • May 3, 2019

Following Thai tradition, the ceremony included prayers to Buddha and the pouring of lustral water on the heads of the young cousins by the groom's grandmother.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Chiengmai stately priests flung garlands upon the baby elephant, poured lustral water on its quivering trunk and performed the complicated mystic rite of "Tarn Kwan."

From Time Magazine Archive

Aretos brought clear lustral water in a bowl quivering with fresh-cut flowers, a basket of barley in his other hand.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

XXI In hours like these, when through our dream of bliss So far from all things not ourselves we move, What lustral blood, what baptism is this That bathes our hearts, straining toward perfect love?

From Poems of Emile Verhaeren by Verhaeren, Emile