chou
a cabbage-shaped decoration, as a rosette or knot on a woman's dress, hat, etc.
cream puff: delicious little choux topped with sugar crystals or streusel.
Origin of chou
1Other definitions for Chou (2 of 2)
a dynasty in China, 1122?–256 b.c., marked by the division of China into separate feudal states and the emergence of important philosophical schools, especially Confucianism and Taoism.
- Also Chow [chou; Chinese joh]; /tʃaʊ; Chinese dʒoʊ/; Pinyin, Zhou [joh] /dʒoʊ/ .
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How to use chou in a sentence
While the above is baking, make very small choux (about the size of a macaroon), and bake them also.
Jean-aux-Choux saluted, and asked in a quiet man-servant's voice if the honourable Doctor would be pleased to put on his coat.
The White Plumes of Navarre | Samuel Rutherford Crockett"He vows he would much rather carry a pike in your levies," said Jean-aux-Choux.
The White Plumes of Navarre | Samuel Rutherford CrockettBut among these wine-carriers and free folk of the roads there was scarcely one who did not know Jean-aux-Choux.
The White Plumes of Navarre | Samuel Rutherford CrockettBut his intimates understood the word, and so, though a poor fool, did Jean-aux-Choux.
The White Plumes of Navarre | Samuel Rutherford Crockett
British Dictionary definitions for chou (1 of 2)
/ (ʃuː) /
a type of cabbage
a rosette
a round cream bun
Origin of chou
1British Dictionary definitions for Chou (2 of 2)
Zhou
/ (tʃəʊ) /
the imperial dynasty of China from about 1126 to 255 bc
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