(n.) A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.
(n.) A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Elizabeth I's locket ring It was commissioned and worn by Elizabeth, who constantly reminded her subjects throughout her reign that she was the daughter and heir of Henry VIII.
(2) When I turned 40, my mother gave me – this was at my request; she's not a total weirdo – a Victorian mourning locket, made of jet.
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.