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chaplet¹

  • /ˈt͡ʃæplət/ UK, US
  • /ˈt͡ʃæplɪt/ UK, US

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

noun chaplets

  1. A garland or circlet for the head. Her little chambers drip with flower-like red, Her girdles, and the chaplets of her head, Her armlets and her anklets; with her feet She tramples all that winepress of the dead.
  2. A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
  3. archaic A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary. Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal,[…]
  4. A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads. The Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary consists of seven sets of Hail Marys.
  5. specifically The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church. People often pray the chaplet at 3:00 pm to commemorate Jesus' death.
  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 Alternative form of chapelet

chaplet²

  • /ˈt͡ʃæplət/ UK, US
  • /ˈt͡ʃæplɪt/ UK, US

noun chaplets

  1. A small chapel or shrine.

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noun set of repetitive prayers

Portuguêscoroa
Françaischapelet
Italianocorona

noun a garland or circlet for the head

Italianocorona, ghirlanda, serto
Русскийвенок venok

noun a string of beads, especially when making up five decades of the rosary

Portuguêsterço
Françaischapelet
Italianorosario

noun a molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead-moulding

Italianomodanatura a perline, modanatura

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@misc{chaplet_2026,
  title = {chaplet},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chaplet},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}