scrine
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French escrin (French écrin), from Latin scrīnium. Doublet of shrine.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
scrine (plural scrines)
- (obsolete) A chest or other box for storing valuables.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Lay forth out of thine euerlasting scryne
The antique rolles, which there lye hidden still […]