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From chapel + man.
chapelman (plural chapelmen)
- A clergyman; an official from a chapel.
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 163:That month, the king's chapelman William Cornish was waylaid and beaten up by Empson's men and immured in the Fleet, the notorious debtors' prison […]
