Obs. In 6 chappellet, 7 chappelet, chaplet. [f. CHAPEL + -ET. Cf. It. capelletta: the Fr. form would be chapellette.] A little chapel, oratory or shrine.
1587. Harrison, England, II. ii. (1877), I. 56. There is … a litle chappellet hard by on that common.
1636. Featly, Clavis Myst., xvii. 223. Many private oratories or chaplets [are] but one Temple.
1653. Hammond, Paraphr. Acts vii. 43 (R.). Ye set up a chaplet or shrine with an image in it.
1675. Cave, Antiq. Apost. (1702), 71. There were … multitudes of silver cabinets, or chappelets, little shrines, made in fashion of the temple.
