chapelet
Meanings
Noun
1. wreath (of flowers) (obsolete)
2. rosary, prayer beads (Catholicism)
3. string, hatful (of objects, ideas etc.) (also figuratively, figuratively)
Examples1
Il chut de tout son long, égrenant à nouveau un chapelet d'horribles jurons.
He fell full length, reeling off another string of appalling curses.