feretory
noun
a container for the relics of a saint; reliquary.
feretories
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pluralof feretory.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Then to please the females, he described to them the reliquaries, feretories, calices, crosiers, crosses, pyxes, monstrances, and other wonders ecclesiastical, and the goblets, hanaps, watches, clocks, chains, brooches, &c., so that their mouths watered.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
Then, to please the females, he described to them the reliquaries, feretories, calices, crosiers, crosses, pyxes, monstrances, and other wonders ecclesiastical, and the goblets, hanaps, watches, Clocks, chains, brooches, &c., so that their mouths watered.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
Of crosses, paxes, censers, pixes, feretories, candelabra, monstrances, lamps, &c., he scattered specimens broadcast throughout Spain.
From An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. by Matthew Digby Wyatt
