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chalet

UK/ˈʃæleɪ/US/ˈʃæleɪ/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,496 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: chalets

A chalet is a wooden mountain house with a wide overhanging roof. An alpine chalet, a ski chalet, book a chalet.

The overhang is not decoration: it throws snow clear of the walls and shelters the timber. It began as a herdsman's summer hut in the Alps and became the standard holiday building, so a chalet at a British holiday park is a long way from the original.

Leemburg-CH · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of chalet

  1. 1nounchaletA wooden mountain house with a wide overhanging roof.B2+

    “We rented a wooden chalet in the Alps for a week of skiing.”

chalet is a house.

Where it comes from

French chalet comes from a Franco-Provencal word for a herdsman's mountain hut.

  1. frp

    çhalè — herdsman's hut in the mountains

  2. French

    chalet

  3. English, today

    chalet

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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chalet in the wild

  • The centre provides lodges, chalets and campsites covering 17 hectares of land.

    Kandersteg International Scout Centre

  • The chalet is also accessible via the Loop Trail (4 miles (6.4 km), 2,200 feet elevation gain) and the Swiftcurrent Trail, 2,300 feet elevation gain).

    Granite Park Chalet

  • The chalet is reached only by trail, via hiking or horseback.

    Sperry Chalet

  • The other means of accessing the chalet is via the Gunsight Trail, which is a 12.1-mile hike from the Jackson Glacier Overlook on Going-to-the-Sun Road.

    Sperry Chalet

  • The chalet group originally featured a complex of log buildings, all built in the rustic style, which provided dining and lodging facilities.

    Two Medicine Store

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.