chapelet

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noun

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.

OriginFrench chapelet →
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Meanings

nounchapelet (plural chapelets)

plural chapelets · alternative chaplet

  1. archaicA 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.

    They were dressed as cowboys usually are, with flannel shirts, chapelets and sombrero hats

    1906, Edith Van Dyne [pseudonym: Lyman Frank Baum], Aunt Jane’s Nieces, Chicago, Ill.: The Reilly & Britton Co., →OCLC
  2. historicalA kind of chain pump, or dredging machine, powered by men, horses, water power or steam power.
  3. obsoleteObsolete spelling of chaplet (“garland or headdress”)

    A chapelet on her head she wore

    1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “August. Ægloga Octaua.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC
  4. obsoleteObsolete spelling of chaplet (“rosary”)

Origin

  1. Frenchchapelet
  2. Englishchapelet

From French chapelet. Doublet of chaplet.

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