Rosary

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 90

rō′za-ri, n. the string of beads by which Roman Catholics count their prayers: a series of devotions, aves, paternosters, and glorias: a rose-garden: a chaplet: an anthology.— Festival of the Rosary , a festival on the first Sunday in October, commemorating the victory over the Turks at Lepanto in 1571. [O. Fr. rosarie —Low L. rosarium —L. rosa , a rose.]