chalet
See also: châlet
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French chalet, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃæleɪ/
- Rhymes: -eɪ
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Noun
chalet (plural chalets)
- An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves. [from late 18th c.]
- 2013 January 1, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:
- Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
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Translations
wooden house
French
Etymology
Swiss French, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”), from Old Franco-Provençal chaslet, diminutive of chasel (“farmhouse”), from Late Latin casalis (“house-like, house-related”), from Latin casa (“house”).
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Further reading
- “chalet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Malay
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃale/
- Rhymes: -ale, -le, -e
Spanish
Synonyms
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