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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'

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"Chaplet" Quotes from Famous Books

... retains something of a youthful fragrance; his influence gave much happiness, of a kind usually associated with youth, to many lives besides the illustrious one whose records justify, though certainly they do not inspire, the wish to place this fading chaplet on ...

— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin

... the trembling stones to teach them rest. No words that I know of will say what these Mosses are; none are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough.. . . . They will not be gathered like the flowers for chaplet or love token; but of these the wild bird will make its nest and the wearied child its pillow, and as the earth's first mercy so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain from plant and tree, ...

— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

... chaplet brought from other lands! As in his life, this man, in death, is ours; His own loved prairies o'er his "gaunt, gnarled hands," Have fitly drawn ...

— The Poets' Lincoln - Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President • Various

... had 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 —that, ...

— Italian Hours • Henry James

... real flowers, as a token of welcome on entering a house. It was the pipe and coffee of the modern Egyptians; and a guest at a party was not only presented with a lotus, or some other flower, but had a chaplet placed round his head, and another round his neck; which led the Roman poet to remark the "many chaplets on the foreheads" of the Egyptians at their banquets. Everywhere flowers abounded; they were formed into wreaths and festoons, they decked the stands that supported the vases in the convivial ...

— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

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