Definition of "grails" [grails]

• Plural form of grail. (noun)

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• "I’m looking forward to see the scrambling and backtracking that will occur when people realize that the current recession might well reduce poverty in relative terms – it may look a bit awkward when one of the left’s holy grails is found to have been accomplished by mass suffering."
• "It's not quite like that, though; during the Octave of Easter, short chants - in my sources called "grails," a term I believe is derived from "Gradual," even though we are talking about the Divine Office and not the Mass - and verse/responses are sung in place of hymns."
• "In addition to these short chants/"grails" and versicles sung at all the offices of the Octave, there is a sequence hymn for the mass of Easter Day: Victimae Paschali one English translation of this is "May you praise the Paschal Victim"; here is an mp3 of this sequence hymn from the Brazilian Benedictines; here's the chant score:"