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rosary

ro.sa.ry \'ro-z-(*-)re-\ n [ML rosarium, fr. L, rose garden, fr. neut. of 
   rosarius of roses, f]r. rosa rose 1: a string of beads used in counting 
   prayers esp. of the Roman Catholic ro sary often cap  2: a Roman Catholic 
   devotion consisting of meditation on usu. five sacred m ysteries during 
   recitation of five decades of Ave Marias of which each begins with a 
   paternoster and ends with a Gloria