Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See the extract.
 
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Examples
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Traditional practitioners do not usually wear the red-string bracelets favored by celebrity devotees.
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Maybe you're thinking of getting a red-string kabbalah bracelet.
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From the Kabbalah red-string bracelet to Hebrew-inscribed charms to crosses of all kinds, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has noticed that Hollywood ` s biggest stars are more willing than ever to put their religion on display.
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But with celebrities like Demi Moore and Gwyneth Paltrow flocking to Kabbalah centers and sporting red-string bracelets as a sign of their newfound interest, the question is a natural: What is Kabbalah?
Popular version of Kabbalah is more New Age than genuine 2004
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Which probably explains why its “unfathomable complexities” have become fully accessible to the likes of Britney Spears, who has also been seen sporting a Kabbalistic red-string wrist band.
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She got up from the table, went to her bedroom, and returned with her red-cardboard accordion folder, untying the red-string bow as she walked.
Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995
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She was photographed with the telltale red-string bracelet.
Gawker Maureen O'Connor 2010
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Of course it is the religion’s celebrity connections — and the famous $26 red-string bracelets that publicly identify its followers — that have brought it to prominence.
 
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