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

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 Townsend, F. H.

A new political journal appeared, having for its emblem, or political phylactery, a serpent, cut into pieces, each piece bearing the initials of a colony, with the ominous motto—JOIN OR DIE.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

Then he stepped without ostentation in the centurion's way—a weak, small figure in fringes and phylactery, living up to his nature as he fronted brassy Rome.

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

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

But there has never been such a run on flowing robes, phylacteries and false beards as there is in the studios just now.

From Time Magazine Archive

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