English edit

Etymology edit

From chapel +‎ man.

Noun edit

chapelman (plural chapelmen)

  1. 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 []