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rosary
noun rosaries
- 1a. A rose-garden;
1b. A rose-bed. Also called rosery.
2. RC Church.
- A series of prayers with a set form and order in which five or fifteen decades of Aves are recited, each decade being preceded by a Paternoster and followed by a Gloria.
- A string of 165 beads divided into fifteen sets used to count such prayers as they are recited;
- A similar string of 55 beads.
- Form: lesser rosary (also)
