reliquary
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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
Nearby, the importance of France is announced by a 17th-century gilt reliquary, a cross flanked by free-standing angels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 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
Inside an ornate reliquary perched within a glass case on a pedestal lie pieces of bone, the knee caps and hair of Bernadette Soubirous.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2022
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
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
What is radical, or even progressive, about the painfully kitschy “Chamberlain Casket” of 1903, a hodgepodge of metal boats, figurines and medallions, meant to evoke medieval reliquaries, but really floating in art-historical limbo?
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 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
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