penal rosary
Meaning
Noun
- A small set of rosary beads, consisting of a single decade of beads with a cross, attached to a ring.
Origin
- From its use as a discrete form of prayer during Irish penal times when Catholic prayer was forbidden by the British.
Modern English dictionary
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