chalet

Alternative forms

• châlet

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)

1. 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.

Further reading

• chalet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Thecla, laceth, letcha, thecal

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”).

Noun

chalet m (plural chalets)

1. chalet

Further reading

• “chalet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• léchât

Etymology

Borrowed from French chalet.

Noun

chalet m (invariable)

1. chalet

Anagrams

• talché

Verb

chalet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of chalō

Etymology

Borrowed from English chalet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃale/
• Rhymes: -ale, -le, -e

Noun

chalet

1. chalet (wooden house)

Etymology

Borrowed from French chalet.

Noun

chalet m (plural chalets)

1. cottage, chalet