chaplet
noun1
A small chapel or shrine.
chaplet
nounUK, US /ˈt͡ʃæplət/
Etymology From Middle English chapelet, from Old French chapelet. Doublet of chapelet.
10 senses
- 1A garland or circlet for the head.
- 2A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves…
- 3A string (of beads), especially when making up five…
- 4A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary…
- 5The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet…
- 6A series of spores or other objects arranged like beads…
- 7A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
- 8A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on…
- 9A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
- 10Alternative form of chapelet.
1
A garland or circlet for the head.
- Her little chambers drip with flower-like red, Her girdles, and the chaplets of her head, Her armlets and her anklets; with her feet She tramples all that winepress of the dead.1862-1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Laus Veneris:
2
A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
3
Archaic A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
- Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal,[…]1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter I, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I, page 14:
4
Catholicism, Christianity 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.
5
Catholicism, Christianity Specifically The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.
- People often pray the chaplet at 3:00 pm to commemorate Jesus' death.
7
A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
8
A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
9
A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
10
Alternative Alternative form of chapelet.
- Derived terms
- chapleted