What's the difference between feretory and reliquary?
Feretory
Definition:
(n.) A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints.
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Reliquary
Definition:
(n.) A depositary, often a small box or casket, in which relics are kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) What I encountered was part reliquary, part freak show – and an impressive work of experience design, as stage-managed as anything in the London Dungeon .
(2) A bronze sculpture from a series recalling African reliquary masks in But To Be A Poor Race pulls even deeper past, heavy with the shifting weight of talismans into requisitioned modernist forms.
(3) On Thursday the church was packed with tourists oblivious to the squatters, gawking instead at the rich frescoes, marble columns and the crystal reliquary said to contain wood from Jesus's manger.
(4) This is from Allen's recent article about the visit of a reliquary of St John Vianney, the Curé d'Ars, to Britain.