chappe
[ shap ]
noun
Origin of chappe
1First 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.
Heroes of the Telegraph | J. MunroThis gave 64 different signs, but was defective in the same point as that of chappe.
Historic Oddities | Sabine Baring-GouldObserver, after an interval of ten minutes: Are you ready, chappe?
Metapsychical Phenomena | J. MaxwellIt was as though chappe had indeed something to say and meant to say it.
Metapsychical Phenomena | J. Maxwellchappe washed his hands, so to say, of Robert and his doings.
Metapsychical Phenomena | J. Maxwell
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