buttonhole vs chaplet

buttonhole

noun
  • A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration. 

  • A small slot-like cut or incision, made for example by an accident with the scalpel. 

  • So shaped that it can be worn on a buttonhole or it is similar to a buttonhole. 

  • The mouth and/or nose and/or eyes if appearing tiny. 

  • A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one. 

  • anus, batty hole. 

verb
  • To detain (a person) in conversation against their will. 

  • To cut one or more buttonholes (in). 

  • To sew by buttonhole stitch. 

  • To apply a flowery formation in. 

chaplet

noun
  • A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring. 

  • A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads. 

  • The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church. 

  • A metal support for a cylindrical pipe. 

  • A garland or circlet for the head. 

  • A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding. 

  • 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. 

How often have the words buttonhole and chaplet occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )