chapelman

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From chapel +‎ man.

Noun[edit]

chapelman (plural chapelmen)

  1. A clergyman; an official from a chapel.
    • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 163:
      That month, the king's chapelman William Cornish was waylaid and beaten up by Empson's men and immured in the Fleet, the notorious debtors' prison […]
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