chaplet

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæplət/, /ˈt͡ʃæplɪt/

From Middle English chapelet, from Old French chapelet.

chaplet (plural chaplets)

1. A garland or circlet for the head.
2. A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
3. (archaic) A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
   • 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter I, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I, page 14:

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

4. (Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.

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

   1. (specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.

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

5. A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
6. A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
7. A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
8. Alternative form of chapelet

• chapleted

chaplet (plural chaplets)

1. A small chapel or shrine.

• Pelchat, placeth