Definition of "reliquaire" [reliquaire]

• Same as reliquary. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "DEMOISELLE: -- Should I ever win hame to my ain countrie, I make mine avow to enshrine in my reliquaire this elegant bijouterie and offering of La belle Rebelle."
• "Other fragrant messengers followed in their season, but, if ever I "win hame to mine ain countrie," I make mine avow to enshrine that first rosebud in my _reliquaire_, with all honor and solemnity, there to abide till one of us shall be dust."
• "Norman dungeons -- so darkly did all Haco's fears, and his own just suspicions, quell and master him, that mechanically, dizzily, dreamily, he laid his hand on the reliquaire, and repeated, with automaton lips:"