rosary has definitions from the field of Roman Catholic
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[ noun ] (Roman Catholic) beads used in counting prayers (especially Catholic rosary)

Synonyms

prayer_beads

Used in print

(Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)

Calloused fingers , caressed only by the smoothness of polished rosaries , had swayed excitedly beneath puckered chins where tiny black hairs sprouted , never to be tweezed away .

Related terms

beads

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