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What does "chaplet" mean?

Chaplet: 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. Longfellow.

Additional senses

  1. 2.(Arch.) A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc.
  2. 3.(Man.) A chapelet. See Chapelet, 1.
  3. 4.(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.
  4. 5.A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head. Johnson.
  5. 6.A small chapel or shrine.
  6. 7.To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers. R. Browning.

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