scrine

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/ˈskɹaɪn/

noun

A chest or other box for storing valuables.

OriginOld French escrin ← Latin scrīnium →
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Meanings

nounscrine (plural scrines)

plural scrines

  1. obsoleteA chest or other box for storing valuables.

    Lay forth out of thine euerlasting scryne The antique rolles, which there lye hidden still […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinscrīnium
  2. Old Frenchescrin
  3. Englishscrine

From Old French escrin (French écrin), from Latin scrīnium. Doublet of shrine.

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APA

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Chicago

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