reliquarylike

English

Etymology

reliquary +‎ -like

Adjective

reliquarylike (comparative more reliquarylike, superlative most reliquarylike)

1. Resembling a reliquary.
   • 1989, Charles Otto Zieseniss, Katell Le Bourhis, The Age of Napoleon, page 26:

     Even armies at war recognized her importance and opened frontiers to allow these reliquarylike dolls to pass.

   • 2009 May 13, Holland Cotter, “A Life, From a Southern Farm Town to Watts, in Castoff Objects”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.