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  • noun Plural form of chaplet.

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Examples

  • Anyway, in other news, I have a friend here who makes rosaries and chaplets, and I wanted to show off the nice St. Philomena chaplet she recently made for me.

    Messing Around 2009

  • Anyway, in other news, I have a friend here who makes rosaries and chaplets, and I wanted to show off the nice St. Philomena chaplet she recently made for me.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • I would sometimes find lipsticks in handbags, sometimes condoms, love letters, a few coins, chaplets, and photographs.

    A Simple Case 2010

  • I would sometimes find lipsticks in handbags, sometimes condoms, love letters, a few coins, chaplets, and photographs.

    A Simple Case 2010

  • I would sometimes find lipsticks in handbags, sometimes condoms, love letters, a few coins, chaplets, and photographs.

    A Simple Case 2010

  • Later, Anglo-Saxon brides wore the wheat made into chaplets, and gradually the belief developed that a young girl who ate of the grains of wheat which became scattered on the ground, would dream of her future husband.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • Later, Anglo-Saxon brides wore the wheat made into chaplets, and gradually the belief developed that a young girl who ate of the grains of wheat which became scattered on the ground, would dream of her future husband.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • Tears alone are left me; in my house sad memories of my son are stored; mournful tresses shorn from his head, chaplets that he wore, libations for the dead departed, and songs, but not such as golden-haired Apollo welcometh; and when I wake to weep, my tears will ever drench the folds of my robe upon my bosom.

    The Suppliants 2008

  • Tears alone are left me; in my house sad memories of my son are stored; mournful tresses shorn from his head, chaplets that he wore, libations for the dead departed, and songs, but not such as golden-haired Apollo welcometh; and when I wake to weep, my tears will ever drench the folds of my robe upon my bosom.

    The Suppliants 2008

  • Cast from your heads these chaplets of death, look up to the light, for instead of the nether gloom your eyes behold the welcome sun.

    Heracles 2008

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