reliquary

It came in a rigid plastic triangle sealed with peel-and-stick film—a transparent reliquary for something nobody revered.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

This is an interesting car, with a strange, reliquary feel about it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

The reliquary itself, held in the square’s church, was a series of exceedingly odd musical interactions between vocalists and the instruments in a combination of rap session and organized mystical service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

The crown, which has been kept at the Louvre Museum while the famed cathedral underwent extensive renovation, has been placed in a newly built reliquary to replace the one from 1806.

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2024

Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization?

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

The mesmerizing array of paintings, frescoes, statues, chalices, candelabra, vestments, reliquaries and ornate wooden crucifixes can be overwhelming for the visitor.

From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2022

As the name implies, the technological reliquaries placed visceral content in a rational vessel.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2021

Some 40 pieces of the collection, including reliquaries and crosses, are on display in a state-run museum in Berlin.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2020

One is the elongated, slender triangular face with raised, ritual scarifications familiar from so-called Kota reliquaries made in Gabon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2019

We’ve finished the Mediaeval period, with its reliquaries and elongated saints, and are speeding through the Renaissance, hitting the high points.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood