chapelet
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom French chapelet. Doublet of chaplet.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editchapelet (plural chapelets)
- A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider.
- A kind of chain pump, or dredging machine.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chapelet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French chapelet, from chapel (“hat”) + -et.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editchapelet m (plural chapelets)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “chapelet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
editEtymology
editNoun
editchapelet oblique singular, m (oblique plural chapelez or chapeletz, nominative singular chapelez or chapeletz, nominative plural chapelet)
Descendants
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