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chapelries

chapelries is the plural of chapelry.

Meaning of chapelry

Noun

chapelry (plural chapelries)

  1. The district attached to a chapel; a division of a large parish which has its own district chapel.
    • Similarly in the many large parishes, the curates in the outlying chapelries became financially dependent on their congregations.1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 59

Questions about chapelries

What is chapelries the plural of?
Chapelries is the plural of chapelry.

Words near chapelries in the dictionary

  1. chapelmaster
  2. chapelmasters
  3. chapelmen
  4. Chapelon
  5. Chapelons
  6. chapelries
  7. chapelry
  8. chapels
  9. chapels de fer
  10. chapels of ease
  11. chapels of rest

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