chapeau

[sha-poh, sha-poh]

noun

plural

chapeaux, chapeaus 

1. a hat.

2. Heraldry.

   1. a representation of a low-crowned hat with a turned-up brim, usually of a different tincture, used either as a charge or as part of a crest.

   2. a cap depicted within a representation of a crown or coronet.

chapeau

/ ˈʃæpəʊ, ʃapo /

noun

1. a hat

Word History and Origins

Origin of chapeau¹

1515–25; < French; Old French chapel wreath, hat < Late Latin cappellus hood, hat, equivalent to capp ( a ) ( cap ¹ ) + -ellus diminutive suffix

Word History and Origins

Origin of chapeau¹

C16: from French, from Late Latin cappellus hood, from cappa _cap

Example Sentences

Lady Constance tipped her head from one side to the other in front of her dressing-room mirror, the better to admire the elaborate chapeau that she had just placed upon her upswept curls.

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Fitting, given that anything more than one foot in front of her would be invisible beneath the shadow of her cockamamie chapeau.

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It was a different hat — a cartoonish chapeau — Kelce donned a decade ago when he began a journey that would impact thousands of children and families in his adopted city.

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Upon the home’s construction, the Tacoma News Tribune declared it “as modern as milady’s next fall chapeau.”

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"For the women collectively changing the future for this sport, I say chapeau to them," she said.

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Related Words

• fedora 
• headgear 
• helmet