philactery

Updated: May 4, 2025

"Your illustrious office," replied the Retainer, "has brought your worship here, and is it likely you have not transcribed some philactery of your post in this province!" "What is an office-philactery?" asked Yue-ts'un with alacrity.

Xueqin Cao - Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I