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chappe
[ shap ]
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chappe1
First recorded in 1815–25
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Example Sentences
M. Chappe, the inventor of the semaphore, tried about the year 1790 to introduce a synchronous electric telegraph, and failed.
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This gave 64 different signs, but was defective in the same point as that of Chappe.
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Observer, after an interval of ten minutes: Are you ready, Chappe?
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It was as though Chappe had indeed something to say and meant to say it.
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Chappe washed his hands, so to say, of Robert and his doings.
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