chapelry
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French chapelerie, corresponding to chapel + -ry.
Noun[edit]
chapelry (plural chapelries)
- The district attached to a chapel; a division of a large parish which has its own district chapel.
- 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 59:
- Similarly in the many large parishes, the curates in the outlying chapelries became financially dependent on their congregations.