scrine means A chest or other box for storing valuables. It carries an Arena rating of 1505, earned across 8 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, scrine ranks #1,349 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #1,997 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #2,647 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words, #3,152 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words.
scrine is pronounced /ˈskɹaɪn/.
Why “scrine” is a great word
A small, lockable chest for holding documents, parchments, or papyrus rolls. From Old French escrin, from Latin scrīnium, a case for books or papers; it is a forgotten doublet of shrine. Unlike a shrine, which sanctifies a relic for veneration, or a coffer, which hoards coin with an air of security, a scrine is a vessel of quiet custody for the written word. It is the scent of cedar and aged paper, the faint metallic click of an intricate lock, the smooth glide of a wooden lid over precious vellum—a secular ark for the fragile cargo of thought.
Etymology
From Old French escrin (French écrin), from Latin scrīnium. Doublet of shrine.
noun
- A chest or other box for storing valuables.e.g.“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:
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