noun
- small white linen cloths used in Christian liturgy to clean the chalice and paten during communion
Usage: ecclesiastical; plural of purificator
Examples
- The altar server carefully folded the purificators after the service.
- Clean purificators must be prepared before each communion service.
- The priest used the purificators to wipe the chalice clean.
- White linen purificators are traditional in most Christian denominations.
- The sacristy contained freshly laundered purificators for Sunday mass.
- She volunteered to wash and iron the church’s purificators each week.