chaplets

Noun

chaplet (plural chaplets)

1. A garland or circlet for the head.
   • Her little chambers drip with flower-like red,
     Her girdles, and the chaplets of her head,
     Her armlets and her anklets; with her feet
     She tramples all that winepress of the dead.1862-1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Laus Veneris
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.
   • Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal,[…]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
4. 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 series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.

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