Chaplet

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.

2. A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads. Her chaplet of beads and her missal. Longfellow.

3. A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc.

4. A chapelet. See Chapelet, 1.

5. A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold.

6. A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head. Johnson.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A small chapel or shrine.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers. R. Browning.