chapeau
pronunciation
How to pronounce chapeau in British English:
UK [ʃæ'pəʊ]
How to pronounce chapeau in American English:
US [ʃæ'poʊ]
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- Noun:
- headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
Word Origin
- chapeau (n.)
- 1520s, from Middle French chapeau (Old French capel, 12c.) "hat," from Vulgar Latin *cappellus, from Late Latin capellum (also source of Italian cappello, Spanish capelo, Portuguese chapeo), diminutive of cappa (see cap (n.)).
Example
- 1. She groaned quietly and regretted not bringing her chapeau with her .
- 2. The cairo chapeau specifically recognizes national sovereignty in this regard .
- 3. When whitemane 's chapeau enters play , you may put an ability card from your graveyard into your hand .
- 4. The exclusion in the chapeau leads us to believe that , where there is no such explicit exclusion elsewhere in the same article of the anti-dumping agreement , no exclusion should be implied .
- 5. The artist and the poet had met three years earlier and quickly became close friends . Colinet 's first published work , a poem set to music , bore a suitably magrittean title , " marie trombone chapeau buse " , and contained an illustration by the surrealist painter .