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château
[ sha-toh; French shah-toh ]
noun
- (in France) a castle or fortress.
- a stately residence imitating a distinctively French castle.
- a country estate, especially a fine one, in France or elsewhere on the Continent.
- (often initial capital letter) a winegrower's estate, especially in the Bordeaux region of France: often used as part of the name of a wine.
chateau
/ ˈʃætəʊ; ʃɑto /
noun
- a country house, castle, or manor house, esp in France
- (in Quebec) the residence of a seigneur or (formerly) a governor
- (in the name of a wine) estate or vineyard
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of château1
Example Sentences
A Chateau Vancouver 2020 cabernet might well make the earth move.
I went through a very crazy time, whether it was at the Chateau, running wild in Malibu, I just went through it.
“Somehow she said we spent a romantic night making love at the Chateau Marmont,” Richardson told Wallace.
The couple apparently visited the royal chateau in January when they were scouting locations for the big day.
The 14,000-square-foot, French chateau-style home was a five-year project spearheaded by architect Richard Landry.
Their Chateau en Espagne seemed invisible, as such chateaux usually are; and where it might be found, who was there to tell?
Wharton left Vienna, the morning after his separation from Louis in the garden of the chateau.
We are drawing near the chateau, and you might as well wear a cockade tricolor as let them hear that.
Some peasants had brought the news to the chateau, with the additional information that they were all to be shot within two days.
I was in the Chateau de Montauban, and I now blessed the chance which had sent me to its honoured walls.
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