chapelry

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chapelry

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From Old French chapelerie, corresponding to chapel + -ry.

noun chapelries

  1. The district attached to a chapel; a division of a large parish which has its own district chapel. Similarly in the many large parishes, the curates in the outlying chapelries became financially dependent on their congregations.

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@misc{chapelry_2026,
  title = {chapelry},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chapelry},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}