phylactery

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"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

Last term Kifford told his form that a phylactery was a kind of musical instrument.

From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian

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 Trollope, Anthony

He was expected to wear a phylactery on his forehead inscribed "I AM A BIOLOGIST."

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora