chapelet

le chapelet (FR N-M) (Catholic) rosary, originally a necklace of threaded seeds, grouped in tens, that was slid through one's fingers while reciting the Lord's Prayer or the Ave Maria; prayers said while holding the rosary; any succession of identical or analogous things. The amount of prayer is fifteen decades (groups of ten) of Ave Marias, with a Pater Noster (Our Father) between each ten. Ancients used ten fingers to count prayers, a probable source of the traditional decade in rosaries. Ten…