Chalet

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʃæleɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Alternative forms

• châlet

Origin

Swiss French, from Franco-Provencal çhalè ‘herdsman’s hut in the mountains’, from Old Franco-Provencal chaslet, diminutive of chasel ‘farmhouse’, from Late Latin casalis ‘house-like, house-related’, from Latin casa ‘house’.

Noun

1. An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves.
• 2013-01, Brian Hayes, Father of Fractals, Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.

Anagrams

• letcha, thecal, Thecla