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Definition of Chaptrels
1. chaptrel [n] - See also: chaptrel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaptrels
Literary usage of Chaptrels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Mexico by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Thomas Savage, Joseph Joshua Peatfield (1888)
"The clustered columns of the interior are fluted Doric, with heavy chaptrels,
and here also the balustrade forms a prominent feature. ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1840)
"... interwoven with flowers of purple and branches of golden vines, supported
chaptrels of solid blocks of white stone, five cubits in length. ..."
3. History of the Pacific States of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Henry Lebbeus Oak, Frances Fuller Victor, Alfred Bates (1888)
"The clustered columns of the interior are fluted Doric, with heavy chaptrels,
and here also the balustrade forms a prominent feature. ..."
4. Italy Under Victor Emmanuel: A Personal Narrative by Carlo Arrivabene (1862)
"... of delicately sculptured chaptrels, of miracles of art, wrought out of Parian
marble. Hard by are still to be seen the remains of buildings in which the ..."
5. The Courts of Europe at the Close of the Last Century by Henry Swinburne (1895)
"Shut out that light! the mansion of the dead A salutary horror should diffuse;
No flow'ret gay should round the chaptrels spread, But grave the forms and ..."
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