Chaplet

Definitions

1. A garland or circlet for the head.
2. A small chapel or shrine.
3. A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
4. A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
   archaic
5. A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
6. The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.
   specifically
7. A series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.
8. A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
9. A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
10. A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.

Equivalents

Examples

“Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal,[…]”

“The Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary consists of seven sets of Hail Marys.”

“People often pray the chaplet at 3:00 pm to commemorate Jesus' death.”

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