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noun

Chapelet n.

A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider. (Written also chaplet)

A kind of chain pump, or dredging machine.

Chaplet n.

A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.

A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads. "Her chaplet of beads and her missal."

(Arch.) A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc.

(Man.) A chapelet. See Chapelet, 1.

(Founding) A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold.

A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.

Chaplet n. A small chapel or shrine.

verb

Chaplet v. t. (past & past part. chapleted) To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers.

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Etymology of 'Chaplet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chaplet" Quotes from Famous Books

... the water. Then she knelt down at the edge of the stream and amused herself, like a child, in casting in her long tresses and pulling them abruptly out, to watch the shower of drops that glittered down, looking, as the sunlight struck athwart them, like a chaplet of pearls. ...

— Adieu • Honore de Balzac

... silks and gold. In my Origines I have also related the strange claim made by the Lord of Pace, in Anjou, on the pretty (and honest) women of the neighbourhood. They were to bring to the castle fourpence and a chaplet of flowers, and to dance with his officers: a dangerous trip, in which they might well fear some such affronts as those offered by Hagenbach. They were forced to obey by the threat of being stripped and pricked with a goad bearing the impress ...

— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet

... scene, that we may understand a little better what has resulted in our experience from the Incarnation of God, and our thought turns to S. Mary whom God chose and brought so near to Himself. Perhaps it is when, with chaplet in hand, we try to imagine S. Mary's feelings at this first of the Joyful Mysteries when the meaning of her vocation comes clearly before her. Hail! thou that art full of grace, of the Living Grace, the very Presence ...

— Our Lady Saint Mary • J. G. H. Barry

... Pestered nigh unto forceful phrases with shooing robbers of both sides out of their melon patches, and fired at last by the sentiment that it behooved them to sally forth and regulate things themselves.... They only lacked a Cincinnatus. Their old general would not lead them. Wearing his bright chaplet of renown, Joe Shelby now drove mules, a captain over long ...

— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

... little fairies From out the ether blue. Here is a Christmas posy We are bringing unto you. And the initial letters Will a starry chaplet make. Each trusts you will receive it, And wear it for ...

— Christmas Entertainments • Alice Maude Kellogg

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