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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pyx /pɪks/ (also pix)

▶noun

1 Christian Church the container in which the consecrated bread of the Eucharist is kept.

2 (in the UK) a box at the Royal Mint in which specimen gold and silver coins are deposited to be tested annually.

– origin ME: from L. pyxis, from Gk puxis ‘box’.

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