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What is a monstrance?

What is a monstrance? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An ornamental, often precious receptacle, either open or with a transparent cover, in which the sacramental bread is placed for veneration.
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She held him out proudly in her arms, as if he were monstrance and she priest.
In this image, the bishop carries a monstrance under the shelter of a portable baldachin decorated with the images of various saints and martyrs.
You are thinking of the monstrance which should have been of gold but was of silver?
Then he bowed low to the monstrance on the altar, and lower still to the figure of the Virgin.
The balconies of the houses that the monstrance is to pass by are also decorated, and it travels over its route under a shower of flower petals.
The object held by the angels at the base shares the metalwork-like form of a monstrance.

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