censer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a vessel in which incense is burned, especially a covered metal container swung on chains during a religious ceremony

   The server swung the censer as incense rose through the church.

From Middle English censer through Anglo-Norman censier and Old French encensier, 'incense vessel,' from encens, 'incense.' Its chain-suspended liturgical form is also called a thurible.

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