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chaplet
[ chap-lit ]
noun
- a wreath or garland for the head.
- a string of beads.
- Roman Catholic Church.
- a string of beads, one-third of the length of a rosary, for counting prayers.
- the prayers recited over this.
- Architecture. a small molding carved to resemble a string of beads; astragal.
- 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.
chaplet
/ ˈ³Ùʃæ±è±ôɪ³Ù /
noun
- an ornamental wreath of flowers, beads, etc, worn on the head
- a string of beads or something similar
- RC Church
- a string of prayer beads constituting one third of the rosary
- the prayers counted on this string
- a narrow convex moulding in the form of a string of beads; astragal
- a metal support for the core in a casting mould, esp for the core of a cylindrical pipe
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Derived Forms
- ˈ³¦³ó²¹±è±ô±ð³Ù±ð»å, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³¦³ó²¹±èl±ð³Ù·±ð»å adjective
- un·³¦³ó²¹±èl±ð³Ù·±ð»å adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of chaplet1
C14: from Old French chapelet garland of roses, from chapel hat; see chapeau
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The diners themselves were wearing chaplets of flowers and graceful draperies.
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ABOVE: The chaplets on the clock combined warming copper and silver.
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On her head was a chaplet woven of clover.
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Sometimes the lord himself set forth such arms in a formal grant, as when the baron of Greystock grants to Adam of Blencowe a shield in which his own three chaplets are charges.
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They may also have forecast the time when California with her girdles of gold and chaplets of freedom would spring, Athena-like, from the Zeus brain of American enterprise.
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