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- noun Plural form of
chappel .
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Examples
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It´s fairly stark, not highly ornate except for a few chappels and a huge carved choir.
Archive 2006-04-01 2006
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It´s fairly stark, not highly ornate except for a few chappels and a huge carved choir.
lima 2006
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These chappels haue their floores couered, and their walles hanged with Tapistrie of great price, I could value the couering and hangings of one of the chappels, at no lesse then fiue hundred poundes, besides their lamps hanging richly gilded.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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These chappels haue their roofes curiously wrought with rich stone, and gilded.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I was in both the chappels, in one of the which lieth the Turkes father, and fiue of his sonnes in tombes right costly, with their turbents very white and cleane, shifted (as they say) euery Friday, they be not on their heads, but stand on mouldes made for that purpose.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Moreouer, he maketh mention of certeine churches or holy chappels (as of a base thing) which many of the Islanders haue built in their owne houses: and that first of all in the morning, they haue recourse thither, to make their prayers, neither do they suffer any man before they haue done their deuotion to interrupt them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Moreouer, he maketh mention of certeine churches or holy chappels (as of a base thing) which many of the Islanders haue built in their owne houses: and that first of all in the morning, they haue recourse thither, to make their prayers, neither do they suffer any man before they haue done their deuotion to interrupt them.
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[Sidenote: New chapels.] 12 That no new chappels should be builded without consent of the bishop.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I. Raphael Holinshed
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Eighty-nine parish churches, besides chappels burnt.
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Moreouer, he maketh mention of certeine churches or holy chappels (as of a base thing) which many of the Islanders haue built in their owne houses: and that first of all in the morning, they haue recourse thither, to make their prayers, neither do they suffer any man before they haue done their deuotion to interrupt them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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