"penal rosary" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From its use as a discreet form of prayer during Irish penal times when Catholic prayer was forbidden by the British.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "penal rosaries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "penal rosary (plural penal rosaries)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A small set of rosary beads, consisting of a single decade of beads with a cross, attached to a ring."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, historical) A small set of rosary beads, consisting of a single decade of beads with a cross, attached to a ring."
      ],
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        "Ireland",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "penal rosary"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From its use as a discreet form of prayer during Irish penal times when Catholic prayer was forbidden by the British.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "penal rosaries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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      "expansion": "penal rosary (plural penal rosaries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "Irish English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small set of rosary beads, consisting of a single decade of beads with a cross, attached to a ring."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, historical) A small set of rosary beads, consisting of a single decade of beads with a cross, attached to a ring."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "penal rosary"
}