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  • noun Plural form of rosary.

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Examples

  • Each year another man will sail out west to break new ground, and break the knots their women spun in rosaries of net.

    POEMS BY CIARAN CARSON, 1966-1972 1972

  • "Ordinary Time" is my favorite of the pieces for actual wearing; the rosaries are my favorite altogether.

    Making Light: Pretty rocks 2010

  • On either side a graceful and well-proportioned portico stretched verandahs, covered with roses and clematis; to the right extended a range of costly conservatories, terminating in vistas of trellis-work which formed those elegant alleys called rosaries, and served to screen the more useful gardens from view.

    Night and Morning, Volume 1 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • On either side a graceful and well-proportioned portico stretched verandahs, covered with roses and clematis; to the right extended a range of costly conservatories, terminating in vistas of trellis-work which formed those elegant alleys called rosaries, and served to screen the more useful gardens from view.

    Night and Morning, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Damning the locals as sexual puritans - one (woman) columnist hilariously depicted them waving crucifixes and clutching rosaries, which isn't quite where the C of E is at in Norfolk

    Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009

  • The men were taken out in 'rosaries' tied in a line with rope around the chest, made to dig ditches and shot - their bodies then tumbled into the grave they had dug.

    Genocide in the Vendee de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • The men were taken out in 'rosaries' tied in a line with rope around the chest, made to dig ditches and shot - their bodies then tumbled into the grave they had dug.

    Archive 2007-08-12 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Down the road at Giffords' Tucson district office, Chad Hahn was carefully walking his 4-year-old daughter, Carley, around a maze of rosaries and roses.

    Makeshift shrines offer solace in Arizona 2011

  • Replace sin taxes with a special tax on bibles, rosaries, etc.

    Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Your Crime Control Policy On Drugs 2009

  • They were supported by the local Catholic diocese, which declared this week that schools should let students wear religious jewelry but can ban gang members from wearing rosaries.

    'I Love Boobies': Cancer Bracelets Raise Debate Over School Codes AP 2010

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