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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

... Ennius, the first who brought down from pleasant Helicon a chaplet of unfading leaf, the fameof which should ring out clear through the ...

— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce

... said, "and we'll come back, after three days, by the sea"; which handsome promise flowered into such flawless performance that I could but feel it to have closed and rounded for me, beyond any further rehandling, the long-drawn rather indeed than thick-studded chaplet of my visitations of Naples—from the first, seasoned with the highest sensibility of youth, forty years ago, to this last the other day. I find myself noting with interest—and just to be able to emphasise it is what inspires me with these remarks ...

— Italian Hours • Henry James

... of meeting without the Gate, where Stone-face and some of the elders were sitting along with the Alderman, beside whom sat the head man of the merchants, clad in a gown of fine scarlet embroidered with the best work of the Dale, with a golden chaplet on his head, and a good sword, golden-hilted, by his side, all which the Alderman had given to it him that morning. These chiefs were talking together concerning the tidings of the Plain, and many a tale the guest told to the Dalesmen, some true, ...

— The Roots of the Mountains • William Morris

... gracious. Ten times in an hour Diccon was off his horse to pluck this or that flower that her white forefinger pointed out. She wove the blooms into a chaplet, and placed it upon her head; she filled her lap with trailers of the vine that swayed against us, and stained her fingers and lips with the berries Diccon brought her; she laughed at the squirrels, at the scurrying partridges, at the turkeys that crossed our path, at the fish that leaped ...

— To Have and To Hold • Mary Johnston

... me and who carried my letters to the Clerk of Mezlean. Here is a new cloak which my mother broidered; give it to the priests who will sing Masses for my soul. For yourself you may take my crown and chaplet. Keep them well, I pray, as ...

— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence

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