- Devotional exercise - Prayer beads - String of prayer beads - A bed of roses, or place where roses grow. - A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited
in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are
counted. - A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of
beautiful thoughts or of literary selections. - A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently
circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.
- Devotional exercise - A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated.
It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell. - The Angelus bell.