The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stoup \Stoup\ (st[=oo]p), n. [See Stoop a vessel.]
A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.(Eccl.) A basin at the entrance of Roman Catholic churches for containing the holy water with which those who enter, dipping their fingers in it, cross themselves; -- called also holy-water stoup or holy-water font.
Usage examples of "holy-water font".
Oskar went in first, led the boys one by one to the holy-water font, where at his bidding they genuflected toward the high altar.
She stood hesitating near the holy-water font, and definite annoyance filled her-there was a laxity of arrangement somewhere.
Just before him a merchant stopped to get a pebble from his shoe, and the merchant's wife went forward to the holy-water font.
Dylan looked toward the center aisle, perhaps eighty feet away, and saw a pretty young woman step out of the narthex, escorted by a handsome young man in a tuxedo, through a passage in the scaffolding, past the holy-water font, into the nave.