Noun: chalet
| Singular | chalet |
| Plural | chalets |
Sample Sentences
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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. [2013 January 26, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:]
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“I know that Perdita spends the offseason at her chalet in Gstaad, and that her mansion would be empty. And the perfect place to teach you all a valuable lesson about the importance of being nice to people who maybe aren't part of your core group but who have done a lot of nice things for you and yet you still treat them like shit.” [2023 August 31, William Meny & Paul Simms, “A Weekend at Morrigan Manor” (17:20 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 9, spoken by The Guide (Kristen Schaal):]
Nouns inflected like chalet
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French chalet, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”). See: French Nouns '
chalet'.