Chalet
['ʃæleɪ] or ['ʃæle]
Definition
(noun.) a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style.
Inputed by Clinton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.
(n.) A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.
Checked by Lemuel
Definition
n. a summer hut used by Swiss herdsmen among the Alps: a urinal.
Checker: Salvatore
Examples
- Outside, in front of the chalet a road went up the mountain. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Probably the beasts lived in the same houses with the people, as the men and beasts do now in Swiss chalets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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