chapeau
Americannoun
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chapeaux,
plural
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chapeaus
plural
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a hat.
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Heraldry.
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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.
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a cap depicted within a representation of a crown or coronet.
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noun
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of chapeau
1515–25; < French; Old French chapel wreath, hat < Late Latin cappellus hood, hat, equivalent to capp ( a ) ( see cap 1) + -ellus diminutive suffix
Example Sentences
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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.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
Mistaking the Brit Awards for Royal Ascot, Ella Henderson turned up in a voluminous chapeau, which she then insisted on wearing throughout the ceremony.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2024
He had a mechanical as well, still put 40 seconds into me so chapeau to him.
From Washington Times ● May 27, 2023
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.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
County deputies over the past 150-plus years — octagon-shaped uniform caps, broad-brimmed chapeaus like the one Canadian Mounties use, helmets, and more — there is no mention whatsoever of Stetsons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2021
Seattle’s iconic Bernie Utz Hats — I own nine Bernie chapeaus for all seasons and occasions — closed the Third and Union shop it occupied for 84 years in 2018.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
Watkins herself counts 75 Beane originals among her more than 150 chapeaus.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2019
People have used them for food, currency and hat-making material—the human desire for warm and stylish chapeaus almost wiped beavers out.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 20, 2018
I did, or rather stood by and let 'my son' do it in the best of French, only whispering when he proposed gorgeous chapeaus full of flowers and feathers, that I could not afford it.
From Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Louisa May Alcott
What struck me most about the show — aside, naturally, from the marvelous, mammoth chapeaux that are its signature image — was how fresh and funny it felt.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2016
These festive chapeaux should be 3 feet in diameter so you can invite friends and family to partake in your shade.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2014
Carla Bruni is a woman who wears many chapeaux: she’s been everything from a model to, as the wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy, the “First Lady” of France.
From Time ● Apr. 8, 2013
CI: That hat — she’s trying to upstage all those wedding chapeaux.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2011
After alighting we were ushered through a long hall and through a double row of servants of various grades, loaded with gold lace and with chapeaux bras.
From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese) Morse
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