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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--chaplet This week's theme: words for odds and ends. chaplet (CHAP-lit) noun 1. A wreath or garland worn on the head. 2. A string of beads. [Middle English chapelet (wreath), from Old French, diminutive of chapel hat, from Medieval Latin cappellus, from Late Latin cappa (cap).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "What was on Hannibal's mind as he drove his elephants over the Alps? Looking good, apparently, because on Hannibal's head was a wig, which he wore into battle to cover his lack of locks. Julius Caesar used his chaplet for the same purpose, the comb-over having not yet been discovered." Jack Reed; Men Want to Look Good, Too; St. Petersburg Times (Florida); Jan 28, 2001. X-Bonus My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

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