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‖ château|ʃɑto|
Pl. châteaux.
[Fr. château:—OF. chastel:—L. castellum castle.]
a. A castle; a large mansion or country house (cf. castle n. 3): used only in reference to France and other parts of the Continent. (Formerly in more general use.) Also occas. used in reference to Britain. Also attrib. and Comb.
c1739J. Nixon Let. in E. Hamilton Mordaunts (1965) viii. 165 As for our Manner of Life it is (like our Château) collegiate. 1756H. Walpole Let. 18 June (1857) III. 21, I..return to my château this evening. 1789― Remin. iv. 37 At a distance..was a chateau of a considerable German nobleman. 1806Gazetteer Scotl. 122 The mansion-house of Dalziel, attached to the old tower or chateau of the manor. 1844N. P. Willis Pencillings cxxxvii. 212/2 The river is between you and the chateau [sc. Abbotsford] as you come down to Melrose from the North. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Montaigne Wks. (Bohn) I. 341 From a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his chateau. 1878Morley Diderot I. 109 He was transferred from the dungeon to the château. 1903Ld. R. Gower Records & Remin. xxi. 211 Boughton, a gloomy French château-looking house. 1963House & Garden Mar. 57/1 ‘Visit the Château Country’ adjure the travel posters. And that, of course, means the châteaux of the Loire.
b. A French vineyard, usu. in the neighbourhood of a château; freq. in the names of wines made at these vineyards. Hence château-bottled a., (of a wine) bottled at the vineyard.
1754Chesterfield in World No. 91 ¶ 2 The wine was the very same which they had all approved of the day before; and..was true Chateau Margoux. 1833Redding Wines v. 148 In this commune is grown the famous first quality, Château Margaux. Ibid. 150 Nearly all the Château Lafitte, and indeed most of the other growths of this commune, are consumed in England. It is lighter than Château Latour. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 605/2 All the finer descriptions are put into bottle before shipment, the corks bearing the name of the château and the vintage, as is the case with the château-bottled red wine. 1929C. Beaton Diary 7 Dec. in Wand. Years (1961) 181 A little soufflé should be washed down with a glass of Chateau Yquem. 1937Times 30 Dec. 6/3 Our now suddenly enlarged architectural cellar will, for some time, have a lot of queer wine in it that the fully qualified château-bottled vintages will find surprising company. 1954‘N. Blake’ Whisper in Gloom ii. xiii. 183, I don't think they found our Château d'Yquem... Shall I bring you up a bottle? 1954I. Murdoch Under Net xv. 204, I spent it riotously on château wines. 1959Times 27 Nov. 11/7 A château-bottled wine from the great châteaux will always be good. 1969Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 10/5 Branded wines..are relatively cheap, whereas domaine- and château-bottled wines are becoming increasingly expensive.
c. châteaux in air, chateau(x) en Espagne, château in Spain, Spanish château = castles, or a castle, in the air (see castle n. 11).
1793Cowper To W. Hayley, Dear architect of fine chateaux in air. 1834A. Prinsep Baboo II. 351, I framed a thousand domestic rules, and built a multitude of chateaux en Espagne. 1840[see Alnaschar]. 1852Lever Daltons xxi, It was, however, an Irish fortune, and, like a Spanish château, its loss is more a question of feeling than of fact. 1854N. Hawthorne Mosses from Old Manse I. 270 She endowed him..with an unreckonable amount of wealth. It consisted..of half a million acres of vineyard at the North Pole, and of a castle in the air, and a chateau in Spain. 1873J. S. Mill Autobiogr. iv. 91 It had been a part of their Château en Espagne that my father should be the editor. 1888Ch. Q. Rev (Dixon), Mere châteaux en Espagne, the creation of architectural fancy run mad. |