Holy Grail• That was my Holy Grail, and there could be no real life for me until I found it.• A vaccine for malaria has become something of a scientificholy grail.• The plotproper, however, is the Big One - a quest for the Holy Grail.• Another generation of Labourleaders, in the 1960s, were still left to search for the Holy Grail of economic planning.• We may remember here that the Holy Grail is sometimes considered to be a stone, as well as a vessel.• Totalimmunity from colds once seemed to be the unattainableHoly Grail of clinicalviralscience.
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Grail• That was my HolyGrail, and there could be no real life for me until I found it.• Another generation of Labourleaders, in the 1960s, were still left to search for the Holy Grail of economic planning.• We may remember here that the Holy Grail is sometimes considered to be a stone, as well as a vessel.• What if there is no Grail or Excalibur or secret Templars?• From the same lands came the quest for the Grail that revivified the spirituality of the twelfthcentury.• Secondly, Buckingham wanted those relics, the Grail and Excalibur.• Odile is the patroness of the knights who sought the Grail.
OriginGrail
(1300-1400)Old Frenchgrael, from Medieval Latingradalis“dish”