chapel

The Baroque chapel of the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua from Veneto (Italy)

Meanings

Noun

Adjective

Verb

  • To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
  • To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

Origin

  • From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella ("little cloak; chapel"), diminutive of cappa. capelle.
  • Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

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