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‖ chez, prep.|ʃe|
[F., f. OF. chiese, L. casa house.]
Used with (French) personal pronoun or proper name: at the house or home of.
1740M. W. Montagu Let. 19 July (1966) ii. 199 Be pleas'd to direct your next chez Madame La Comtesse de Pomfret, Pairesse d'Angleterre, a Florence. 1765D. Garrick Let. 16 Feb. in R. B. Peake Mem. Colman Family (1841) I. 138 But he keeps with the lady, and sees no body chez lui. 1770Gray Let. 22 Dec. in Wks. (1884) III. 388, I shall not be able to wait on you chez vous. 1803Wynne Diaries 5 Dec. (1940) III. 101 My Mother must have been in high fidgets at Fanny's accouchement chez elle. 1821Lady Granville Let. 26 Feb. (1894) I. 209 How much better I like chez moi society than any other! 1845Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. June 715/2 Who knows whether there may not be something of the sort chez nous? 1916A. Bennett Lion's Share xxxv. 275 Do you think I do not know the type? We have it, chez nous. 1918― Pretty Lady xvii. 105 One is very comfortable chez-moi. 1936C. Connolly Rock Pool (1947) iv. 47 The male American headquarters: chez Eddie-from-the-top. 1954I. Murdoch Under Net i. 24, I thought it might not be very restful chez Dave. 1964Guardian 29 Feb. 6/2 That hung-on-an-under-bodice technique..makes for perfection Chez Balenciaga..but..chez anyone else would look like nothing at all. 1970A. Draper Swansong for Rare Bird ix. 90 Her old man's house..had..a posh name on the gate ‘Chez Nous’.
Hence (with pron.) as n.
1804J. Orrok Let. 12 Mar. (1927) 63 This day James Reid has come to see us and we give a ‘chez-vous’ on the occasion, it may be called our house warming. 1843F. A. Kemble Let. 3 Oct. in Rec. Later Life (1882) III. 48 They come and sit with me sometimes of an evening, otherwise mon chez moi is undisturbed. 1908Daily Chron. 28 Mar. 4/4 Southerners who loll in the sun all day..do not need so much the cheering influence of a bright and beautiful chez-soi. |