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plural censers
An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies. quotations examples
A thousand wax tapers burned in honour of the Madonna. Four beautiful children swung the silver censers before her picture, till a cloud of incense arose and floated in broken masses to the fretted roof, and the whole air was heavy with perfume.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 215
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
1859 , Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, volumes II: Poems and Tales
A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense. examples