Chalet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A wooden dwelling with a sloping roof and widely overhanging eaves, common in Switzerland and other Alpine regions.
  • n. A cottage or lodge built in this style.
  • n. The hut of a herder in the Swiss Alps.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. an alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A hut or cabin in which cattle and herdsmen are housed for the night on the Swiss mountains.
  • n. Hence A dwelling-house of the Swiss peasantry similarly constructed, that is, low, with very wide eaves, and with the roof weighted down with large stones to secure it against the mountain winds.
  • n. A country residence built in the general style of a Swiss mountain cottage, but generally of ornamental character.
  • n. A more or less ornamental structure placed at convenient points in cities, containing urinals, lavatory, etc., for public convenience; a modern street ‘necessary.’
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style
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