chappe

[ shap ]

Origin of chappe

1
First recorded in 1815–25

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How to use chappe in a sentence

  • M. chappe, the inventor of the semaphore, tried about the year 1790 to introduce a synchronous electric telegraph, and failed.

  • 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?

  • It was as though chappe had indeed something to say and meant to say it.

  • chappe washed his hands, so to say, of Robert and his doings.