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Phylactery

noun
(pl. phylacteries)
1.
(Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer.  Synonym: tefillin.





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... wrote in conspicuous characters on a piece of pasteboard the word "Slattern," and bound it like a phylactery round Helen's large, mild, intelligent, and benign-looking forehead. She wore it till evening, patient, unresentful, regarding it as a deserved punishment. The moment Miss Scatcherd withdrew after afternoon school, I ran to Helen, tore it off, and thrust it into the fire: the fury of which she ...
— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte


Words linked to "Phylactery" :   tefillin, Judaism, reminder


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