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Headband vs Chaplet - What's the difference?

headband | chaplet |

As nouns the difference between headband and chaplet

is that headband is a strip of fabric worn around the head while chaplet is a garland or circlet for the head.

headband

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a strip of fabric worn around the head
  • a hair-accessory, made of a flexible material and curved like a horseshoe, for holding one's hair back.
  • a strip of fabric attached to the top of the spine of a book; used as decoration and reinforcement

    • Synonyms

    * (horseshoe-shaped headband) Alice band

    Hyponyms

    * deely bobber * katyusha

    See also

    * ("headband" on Wikipedia)

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    chaplet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A garland or circlet for the head.
  • A string of beads, especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
  • * Longfellow
    • her chaplet of beads and her missal
  • A moulding in the form of a string of beads; a bead-moulding.
  • A small chapel or shrine.
  • A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
  • A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.
    • (Johnson)

    Derived terms

    * chapleted