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Definition of: grail
(grāl) noun
A broad bowl or chalice; specifically, in medieval legend, the Holy Grail, or Sangreal, the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, preserved by Joseph of Arimathea, who received some of Christ's blood into it at the Crucifixion, and brought it to Britain, after which it disappeared because of the impurity of its guardians. Also spelled graal. [<OF graal <Med. L gradalis; ult. origin uncertain]
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