phylactery

"Please! You'll ruin my grass. Put that phylactery down! Aw, you broke it. "

From The Verge ● Sep. 9, 2015

Next morning, Miss Scatcherd wrote in conspicuous characters on a piece of pasteboard the word “Slattern,” and bound it like a phylactery round Helen’s large, mild, intelligent, and benign-looking forehead.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

He was, perhaps, something of a Civil Service Pharisee, and wore on his forehead a broad phylactery, stamped with the mark of Crown property.

From The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope

About his forehead was bound the phylactery of a Pharisee.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller

We live in a land where every man makes broad his phylactery, inscribing thereon, "All men are created equal,"—"God hath made of one blood all nations of men."

From American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) by Alexander Johnston

An American Jew flying into Amsterdam might have to prove to Dutch authorities that his Israeli-made tefillin, or phylacteries, weren’t made in the holy city of Hebron.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

But they did not don prayer shawls or phylacteries — small cases holding slips inscribed with passages of Scripture bound to the head and arm— that are customarily worn during morning prayers.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2021

“Observant travelers may be wearing a head covering, prayer shawl, and phylacteries — in Hebrew, kippah, tallit, and tefillin,” according to the travel notice on the TSA Web site.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2014

He works every day but Saturday, rising at 6 a.m. to put on the traditional phylacteries for his prayers.

From Time Magazine Archive

I quickly unwound my phylacteries and ran to the window.

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel