phylactery in English
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1
a small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum, worn by Jewish men at morning prayer as a reminder to keep the law.
Although not usually religious he grasped the Jewish artefacts, his phylacteries , in his jacket pocket.
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1. In art history, speech scroll (also called a Banderole or phylactery) is an illustrative device denoting speech, song, or, in rarer cases, other types of sound