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plural chaplets
A garland or circlet for the head. examples
A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring. examples
(archaic) A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary. quotations
Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal, […]
1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter I, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, part I, page 14
(Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
(specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church. examples
A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding. examples
A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould. examples
A metal support for a cylindrical pipe. examples
Alternative form of chapelet examples
A small chapel or shrine. examples