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reliquary🔊

A container to hold or display religious relics.

💬 Quotations
“This reliquary,” said the Palmer, taking a small ivory box from his bosom, and crossing himself, “containing a portion of the true cross, brought from the Monastery of Mount Carmel.”

(figurative) An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.

(law) A person who owes a balance.

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