The word "relics" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to old or ancient items that are kept as objects of historical interest or for sentimental reasons. For example, "The museum contained numerous relics, including artifacts from the first settlers of the region."
Were Henry VIII's iconoclasts comforted, as they smashed the holy relics, by the anonymity of shadows?
At the last three gyms I've joined, the rowing machines have been little more than dusty old ornaments; relics of a bygone age that exist purely to remind people that Andrew Marr had a stroke after using one.
Everywhere you walk there are sad, orphaned relics – lone mailboxes, a decorative urn, a pizza oven, a sign on a knee-high gate in the middle of an empty patch of scrub that says, THIS PROPERTY NO SMOKING.
Hundreds of different beers line the back room walls like wallpaper and are available to imbibe on the spot or to purchase individually for take out; which is a much rarer thing than you'd think, as Pennsylvania liquor laws are mostly relics imposed in the 1930s by temperance heads, still sore about the repeal.
This appears to be the first ever Periscope broadcast from Pyongyang : North Korean state media KCNA carried pictures of the group's "tour" around the capital yesterday, including a trip to a nursery, a maternity hospital and the "historic relics" of Mangyongdae, the birth place of Kim Il-sung.
"Maybe it's sentimental of us, but we hold fast to memories and moments, to relics from bygone eras.
Specimens of social anthropology and period nostalgia, they are relics of an oddly innocent-looking pre-airport-security age.
Damien Hirst's sculpture "Hymn" (1999-2005) greets visitors to "Relics", his largest retrospective, which opened in Doha this month Source: Prudence Cuming Associates/ Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.
Plenty of journalists panted over the glittery opening of "Relics", which lured Miuccia Prada and Jeff Koons to sip fruit juice with the sheikhas.
On October 6th the QMA unveiled two other exhibitions of daring new art in Doha with work by Adel Abdessemed, an Algerian artist, and Francesco Vezzoli, an Italian but Mr Hirst was plainly the main attraction.To call this show "Relics" is an ironic way to describe contemporary art, and perhaps a sly admission of Mr Hirst's status as old hat to many in the West.
Say what you will of those inbred, polo-playing relics of Europe's old noble dynasties, but for women politicians, it's a pity there aren't more of them.
