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hostie

(ˈhəʊstɪ)
n
(Aeronautics) informal Austral short for air hostess
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/ And that inexpressible love trembles hidden in this serene tear.] The idea of the Eucharist as a cosmic phenomenon that implicates the totality of the created order recalls Teilhard de Chardin's (1881-1955) famous prose poem La messe sur le monde (1923), where the French Jesuit philosopher describes creation as, among other things, a "Hostie totale" (23).
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And she tells me: "I missed him when he was last performing near where I now live, but if he comes down again I'll get in touch to say 'Hello, from an old Starways air hostie.'.
By way of a continental example, a Jewish usurer and his family repeatedly invoke the names 'Mahe' and 'Mahom'--Gallicized short-forms of 'Muhammad'--in the Mistere de la Saincte Hostie, a fifteenth-century Parisian host desecration play.
(29.) Cited in Edouard Dumoutet, Le Desire de voir I'hostie et les origins de la devotion au saint-sacrement (Paris, 1942) 49 n.
As they say in Quebec, j'ai mon voyage, j'ai mon hostie de voyage.
Being a 'hostie' in the 1970s and 80s was a much more prestigious job than it is now, Kathleen believes.
(31.) Jan Hostie, The Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, 38 AM.
She came to the island as an adventurous 23-year-old Gulf Air 'hostie' and ended up touching the lives of countless students who she has helped train, find work placements or simply guide through career-enhancing tests.
L'hostie, corpus Deum, n'est-elle pas une autre forme de reduction a l'essence?