Chaplet Definition

chăplĭt
noun
A wreath or garland for the head.
Webster's New World
A string of beads resembling a rosary, used to count iterations in a devotional sequence of prayers.
American Heritage
A rosary consisting typically of five decades.
Webster's New World
The prayers said with such beads.
Webster's New World
Any string of beads; necklace.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Chaplet

Noun

Singular:
chaplet
Plural:
chaplets

Origin of Chaplet

  • Middle English chapelet from Old French diminutive of chapel hat, wreath chapeau

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French chapelet.

    From Wiktionary

Chaplet Sentence Examples

  • Chaplet has patented a muffle or tube furnace, similar in principle, for use on a larger scale, with a number of electrodes placed above and below the muffle-tube.

  • A " Taal " word derived from the Dutch krans, a wreath, chaplet or cornice.

  • Three hundred English horsemen appear to have stolen round Randolph's flank unseen by him, and Bruce is said to have warned him that " a rose had fallen from his chaplet."

  • In consonance with this name, its authors propose to re-name the Conjugatae; Akontae and Oedogoniaceae with a chaplet of cilia become Stephanokontae, and the algae remaining over in the three series from which the Heterokontae and Stephanokontae are withdrawn become Isokontae.

  • Blue; a woman 's head couped at the neck proper wreathed about the temple and neck with a chaplet of oak proper.

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Words Starting With

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TETLET

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