Chateau
[ʃæ'tәu]
Definition
(n.) A castle or a fortress in France.
(n.) A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.
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Examples
- The chateau awoke later, as became its quality, but awoke gradually and surely. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Presently, the chateau began to make itself strangely visible by some light of its own, as though it were growing luminous. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The chateau is on fire; valuable objects may be saved from the flames by timely aid! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A supper-table was laid for two, in the third of the rooms; a round room, in one of the chateau's four extinguisher-topped towers. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- For three heavy hours, the stone faces of the chateau, lion and human, stared blindly at the night. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In the glow, the water of the chateau fountain seemed to turn to blood, and the stone faces crimsoned. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Fragments of this work have been preserved, exquisite painted tiles, and also painted glass, setting forth the story of Psyche, which Palissy prepared for the chateau. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The rider from the chateau, and the horse in a foam, clattered away through the village, and galloped up the stony steep, to the prison on the crag. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It portended that there was one stone face too many, up at the chateau. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The chateau and all the race, returned Defarge. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The chateau at Ecouen has a large room entirely paved with them, and many are to be seen in the chapel. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It would have been of as much avail to interrogate any stone face outside the chateau as to interrogate that face of his. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The chateau, and all the race? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The chateau was left to itself to flame and burn. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Catherine de’ Medici became his patron, and the powerful Constable de Montmorenci sent to Saintes for Palissy to decorate his chateau at Ecouen. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Everywhere the nobility rebuilt or extended their chateaux to the new pattern. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The first pieces of his rustic pottery soon reached the court of France, and Henry II and his nobles ordered vases and figures from him to ornament the gardens of their chateaux. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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