chapdemailt

chape (chap), п. sword, etc., E. capel and copel, q. v.] 1. A metal tip or case serving to strengthen the end of a scabbard. A whittle with a silver chape. Greene, Description of the Shepherd and his Wife. The whole the or ick of war in the knot of his scarf, and the practice in the chape of his dagger. Shak ., All's Well, iv. 3. 2. A similar protection for the end of a strap or belt.-3. In bronze - casting, the outer shell or case of the mold, sometimes consisting of a chape sort of composition which is applied upon the wax, and sometimes of an outer covering or jacket of plaster in which the pieces of the earthen mold are held together.-4. A barrel containing another barrel which holds gunpowder. Wilhelm, Mil. Dict.-5. That part of an object by which it is attached to something else, as the sliding loop on a belt to which a bayonet-scabbard is secured, or the back-piece by which a buckle is fixed to a strap or a garment.-6. The end of a bridle-rein where it is buckled to the bit. -7t. Among hunters, the tip of a fox's tail. E. Phillips, 1706. chapet (chap), v. t.; pret. and pp. chaped, ppr. chaping. [ME. chapen; from the noun.] To furnish with chapes. Here knyfes were i - chaped nat with bras. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 366. chapeau (sha-pō'), n.; pl. chapeaux (-pōz'). [F., chapel = Pr. capel = Sp. capelo = Pg. chapeo = It. cappello , capellus , a headdre , hat, dim. of capa , cappa , a hood: see cap11 , capel, cope1 . Cf. chapel , chaplet1 .] A hat: used in English to denote a plumed hat forming part of an official costume or uniform. Specifically, in the United States army, a military hat pointed in front and behind, which may be folded flat and carried under the arm, worn by officers of the staff corps and depart ments. Chapeau bras, a hat meant to be carried under the arm, and commonly so carried in the eighteenth century, when first introduced, at the time that large and warm wigs were in use. - Chapeau de poil, a beaver hat. It was a chapeau de poil [a fur hat], a mark of some distinction in those days, and which gave name to Rubens's famous picture, now in Sir Robert Peel's collection, of a lady in a beaver hat, or " chapeau de poil ." This having been corrupted into chapeau de paille [a straw hat] has led to much ignorant conjecture. Pepys , Diary, I. 230, note. Chapeau Montaubyn. (a) A certain kind of hat worn in the sixteenth century. (b) A steel cap or helmet, without vizor, worn in the fifteenth century. It was undoubtedly a variety of the chapel-de-fer.