chaplet
Americannoun
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a wreath or garland for the head.
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a string of beads.
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Roman Catholic Church.
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a string of beads, one-third of the length of a rosary, for counting prayers.
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the prayers recited over this.
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Architecture. a small molding carved to resemble a string of beads; astragal.
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Metallurgy. an object for separating the core of a mold from a wall, composed of the same metal as the casting and forming an integral part of it.
noun
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an ornamental wreath of flowers, beads, etc, worn on the head
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a string of beads or something similar
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RC Church
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a string of prayer beads constituting one third of the rosary
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the prayers counted on this string
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a narrow convex moulding in the form of a string of beads; astragal
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a metal support for the core in a casting mould, esp for the core of a cylindrical pipe
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of chaplet
1325–75; Middle English chapelet wreath < Old French. See chapeau, -et
Example Sentences
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She wore a pearl chaplet, a red bhakku over a white silk gown, and high-heeled shoes for the occasion.
From Time Magazine Archive
A five-year-old girl, Gudrun Diem, dressed in a light blue frock and wearing a flower chaplet in her hair, stepped forward, said, “Heil, mein Fuhrer!” and presented him with a small, delicate bouquet of flowers.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
She beheld a thin, undersized man, nearly sixty years old, hawk-nosed, inscrutable of eye, on whose thin gray locks, to mask his fast-growing baldness, rested a chaplet of laurel leaves.
From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson
No need to finger the chaplet of their names and achievements.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
The golden circlet of enormous weight He wears with brow serene and smiling air, As though a myrtle chaplet graced his temples.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
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