reliquary
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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
There are 1,500 new wooden chairs for the congregation, and a new reliquary behind the choir to hold the Crown of Thorns.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
After the announcement of the beatification, a painting of the family was unveiled and a reliquary containing their remains was brought to the centre of the stage.
From Reuters ● Sep. 10, 2023
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
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
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
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