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

A fragment of that relic was returned in the 1930s to Brigidine Sisters elsewhere in Ireland and is stored in a small metal reliquary, shaped like an oak tree, an image associated with Brigid.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 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

These reliquaries are where Fennell and Donovan seem most playful.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

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

Another was sent off to scout the city’s reliquaries for a justice of the peace trophy—a prize for a newly minted lawyer.

From Time ● Aug. 16, 2017

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