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arca

[ahr-kuh] / ˈɑr kə /
NOUN
reliquary
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Perhaps the lettered blocks drawn for the inquirer from the arca were arranged here on this slab.

From A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin

In the seventh year of Henry II a charge appears in the Pipe Roll for conveying the "arca", in which the book was kept, from Winchester to London.

From Winchester by E. W. Haslehust

In the meantime you must make yourself contented by the consciousness of success, like the Roman miser— "'Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.'"

From A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A half-finished building not far off is all that was completed of a magnificent church designed to house the arca of S. Simeon.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

Through the central arch the arca and a little cross are seen.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson




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