Chaplet

Origin

From Old French chapelet.

Full definition of chaplet

Noun

1. A garland or circlet for the head.
2. A string of beads, especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
• Longfellowher chaplet of beads and her missal
3. A moulding in the form of a string of beads; a bead-moulding.
4. A small chapel or shrine.
5. A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
6. Alternative form of chapelet
7. A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.

Derived terms

• chapleted