chappellane
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[edit]Noun
[edit]chappellane (plural chappellanes)
- Obsolete form of chaplain. [16th–17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The second was an holy Nunne to chose, / Which would not let me be her Chappellane, / Because she knew, she said, I would disclose / Her counsell, if he should her trust in me repose.