chalet
pronunciation
How to pronounce chalet in British English:
UK [ˈʃæleɪ]
How to pronounce chalet in American English:
US [ʃæˈleɪ]
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- Noun:
- a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style
Word Origin
- chalet (n.)
- 1782, from Swiss-French chalet "herdsman's hut, Alpine cottage," probably a diminutive of Old French chasel "farmhouse, house, abode, hut," perhaps from Vulgar Latin *casalis "belonging to a house," from Latin casa "house;" or from Old Provençal cala "small shelter for ships," from a pre-Latin language [Barnhart].
Example
- 1. They have an a-frame chalet somewhere in the mountains .
- 2. An unapproachable chalet high in the alps .
- 3. Next to a crackling log fire in a windswept chalet ?
- 4. Jane imagined herself curled up with a bag of licorice beside a streaming windowpane , reading about the chalet school .
- 5. Skiing maybe . Fred 's renting a chalet .