chaplet

Meaning

Noun

• A garland or circlet for the head.
• A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
• A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
• A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
• A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
• A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
• A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
• Alternative of chapelet
• A small chapel or shrine.

Origin

• From Middle English chapelet, from Old French chapelet.