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I. In the Roman Catholic church, a cake of wax bearing the image of a lamb holding the banner of the cross, and blessed by the pope. Fragments of such cakes, enclosed in the figure of a heart, are worn around the neck by devout Catholics.
II. A cloth embroidered with the figure of a lamb, with which, in the Greek church, the cup at the Lord's supper is covered.
 
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