chaplet

Meanings

1. A garland or circlet for the head.
2. A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
3. A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
4. A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
5. The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.
6. A series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.
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 form of chapelet.

1. A small chapel or shrine.

Etymology

From Middle English chapelet, from Old French chapelet. Doublet of chapelet.

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