Chapelet

And whan thei ben nyghe him, with the cros, thanne he dothe a down his galaothe, that syt upon his hede, in manere of a chapelet, that is made of gold and preciouse stone and grete perles. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I stood trembling under the threatening sword of this barbarian; but my master, without loss of time, threw upon me a kind of chapelet [21] of incredible length; and then took up a little book, which hung by his girdle; at the same instant, the women, rushing towards me, drew me from under the hand of Nouegem, and put me under those of the enraged priest, as they all dreaded, he was to pronounce an anathema on his opponent. ❋ Pierre Raymond De Brisson (N/A)

However in Austria it is more commonly a betschnur “prayer string” and in France, often a chapelet. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)

Invocation à Saint Michel que vous pouvez dire par exemple à la fin de chaque dizaine de votre chapelet ou Rosaire facultatif ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)

C't'ap j'avais rendez vous chez la psy alors ben j'm'y rends logique et pis dans la salle de consultation je ballarde mon sac auquel est accroché un chapelet et la le fameux chapelet se decroche et est projeté a travers la piece et manque de tuer ma psy bref un journee tout a fait Pinkuesque! ❋ Pinku-tk (2008)

Pourtant j'etais bien parti dans l'idee d'ecrire un nouveau chapitre pour "le chapelet bleu" mais finalement la fatigue a eu raison de moi. ❋ Pinku-tk (2006)

Roh ben en parlant de Chapelet pourkoi je mettrais pas 'le chapelet bleu' dans la fictitious life? ❋ Pinku-tk (2005)

Il me reste donc a finir "le chapelet bleu" et pis ... ben voila quoi! ❋ Pinku-tk (2004)

Chaucer is my latest authority for it (“_rosen_ chapelet”). ❋ Richard Chenevix Trench (1846)

Les branches sont composées de cylindres enfilés sans ordre, à la suite les uns des autres comme des grains de chapelet. ❋ George Warburton (1836)

_Marquis Musqué_, the partaker if not the cause of half his _succès dans le monde_, is placed by the _chapelet_ of a _religieuse de haute naissance_, who often perhaps dropped a tear on the beads as she counted them in saying her Ave Marias, when some unbidden thought of the world she had resigned usurped the place of her aspirations for a brighter and more enduring world. ❋ Marguerite Blessington (1819)

It is seldom that an Indian leaves home without his beads; they generally have them and do not neglect to say them, sometimes repeating the chapelet several times a day, as well as in the middle of the night, when they rise to pray. ❋ Father Vincent De Paul (1810)

Here, they are promoting Nusaybah--only because he despises his own people: "Diplômé d’Oxford et de Harvard, gentleman élancé, distingué et chic, à l’anglais très poétique, il ressemble à n’importe quel séduisant intellectuel anglo-saxon - si l’on ne remarque pas le chapelet de prières oriental dont il fait sans cesse glisser les perles entre ses doigts - et aurait pu rester aux Etats-Unis, mener une carrière tranquille de philosophe brillant." ❋ As'ad (2008)

_gratious_, _joyeous_, _havior_, _chapelet_ dactyles, and that, not at the end of verses, where it would not have been unusual, but in the first half of them. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

Elle portoit une longue robe d'un étoffe de laine la plus commune, avec une large ceinture de cuir, d'où pendoit d un côté un trousseau de clefs, et de l'autre un chapelet à gros grains "--" Rosario de cuentas gordas. " ❋ Various (N/A)

In Speght’s _Chaucer_ (1667), there is a long list of “old and obscure words in Chaucer explained”; including ‘anthem’, ‘blithe’, ‘bland’, ‘chapelet’, ‘carol’, ‘deluge’, ❋ Richard Chenevix Trench (1846)