chalet

• châlet

Borrowed from French chalet, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃæleɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

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chalet (plural chalets)

1. An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves. [from late 18th c.]
   • 2013 January 1, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 1, page 62:

     Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.

• chalet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Thecla, elatch, laceth, letcha, thecal

Swiss French, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”), from Old Franco-Provençal chaslet, diminutive of chasel (“farmhouse”), from Late Latin casalis (“house-like, house-related”), from Latin casa (“house”).

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chalet m (plural chalets)

1. chalet

• English: chalet
• Portuguese: chalé
• Spanish: chalé, chalet

• “chalet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• léchât

Borrowed from French chalet.

chalet m (invariable)

1. chalet

• talché

chalet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of chalō

Borrowed from English chalet.

• IPA^(key): /ʃale/
• Rhymes: -ale, -le, -e

chalet

1. chalet (wooden house)

Borrowed from French chalet.

chalet m (plural chalets)

1. cottage, chalet

• chalé