ciboire

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ciborium. Doublet of ciborium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /si.bwaʁ/
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Noun

ciboire m (plural ciboires)

  1. (Christianity) the ciborium cup, pyx
    • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
      On aspergea d'eau bénite les draps du lit; le prêtre retira du saint ciboire la blanche hostie; et ce fut en défaillant d'une joie céleste qu'elle avança les lèvres pour accepter le corps du Sauveur qui se présentait.
      The bed-clothes were sprinkled with holy water, the priest drew from the holy pyx the white wafer; and it was fainting with a celestial joy that she put out her lips to accept the body of the Saviour presented to her.

Interjection

ciboire

  1. (Quebec) a mild profanity
    • 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, →ISBN, page 53:
      Ciboire ! Il a joui en l'étranglant ! C'est un hostie de malade !
      Holy shit! He came while strangling him. He's a fuckin' nutcase!

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