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reliquarylike

adj

Etymology

From reliquary + -like.

  1. derived from *leikʷ-✻
  2. derived from reliquiarium
  3. borrowed from reliquaire
  4. suffixed as reliquarylike — “reliquary + like”

Definitions

  1. Resembling a reliquary.

    • Even armies at war recognized her importance and opened frontiers to allow these reliquarylike dolls to pass.
    • The sculptures that Mr. Outterbridge called his “Containment Series” from the late 1960s were reliquarylike boxes hammered from cut and flattened tin cans with charred wood and rusted nails sealed inside but visible behind sheets of glass.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA