chalet
(noun) a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style
Source: WordNet® 3.1
chalet (plural chalets)
An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves. [from late 18th c.]
• Thecla, elatch, laceth, letcha, thecal
Source: Wiktionary
Cha*let", n. Etym: [F.]
1. A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland. Chalets are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen. Wordsworth.
2. A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
