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Red Mass

noun

, Roman Catholic Church.
  1. a votive Mass of the Holy Ghost said as a blessing for the legal profession.


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Only the western heavens, where the sun sank in a red mass of ominous splendour, was alive with energy.

More than four hundred thousand dollars in gold lay in a glittering, red mass before him!

In the great red mass of the school buildings the golden clock moved on through each day's breathless hour of cricket.

A few times he had to take two shots, but ordinarily one was enough to bring down a giant crab in a writhing red mass.

Then followed a roaring crash—a terrible breaking onslaught upon the brush—and the huge red mass seemed to flash down toward me.

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