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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

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

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

One morning, on a week day, I went into San Simeone, to which Queen Elizabeth of Hungary gave the superb arca of silver gilt which contains, it is said, the remains of the saint.

From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Robert (Robert Smythe) Hichens

We know very well what was said formerly:— "Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca."

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke




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