Chapelman

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A clergyman; an official from a chapel.

    "That month, the king's chapelman William Cornish was waylaid and beaten up by Empson's men and immured in the Fleet, the notorious debtors' prison […]"

Example

More examples

"That month, the king's chapelman William Cornish was waylaid and beaten up by Empson's men and immured in the Fleet, the notorious debtors' prison […]"

Etymology

From chapel + man.

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