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Chaplet
//ˈt͡ʃæplət// noun
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Noun
- 1 A garland or circlet for the head.
- 2 A small chapel or shrine.
- 3 flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes wordnet
- 4 A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
- 5 A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary. archaic
"Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal,[…]"
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- 6 A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
"The Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary consists of seven sets of Hail Marys."
- 7 A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.; The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church. specifically
"People often pray the chaplet at 3:00 pm to commemorate Jesus' death."
- 8 A series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.
- 9 A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
- 10 A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
- 11 A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
- 12 Alternative form of chapelet. alt-of, alternative
Etymology
From Middle English chapelet, from Old French chapelet. Doublet of chapelet.
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