chaletnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈʃæl.eɪ/us/ˈʃæl.eɪ/a small wooden house found in mountain areas, especially in Switzerland, or a house built in a similar style, especially one used by people on holiday
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Houses & homes
- A-frame
- almshouse
- apartment
- apartment building
- apt
- flophouse
- garden apartment
- garden flat
- gated community
- gatehouse
- public housing
- pueblo
- Quonset hut
- ranch house
- rest home
- villa
- walk-up
- wigwam
- workhouse
- yurt
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Examples from literature
- He preferred Switzerland on account of its chalets and its lakes.
- Her shop was decorated in imitation of a rustic chalet.
- How tiny everything looked below—hotel, trees, village, chalets—little toy things!
- I stopped short before one of these chalets, it was so pretty: a small white house with brown trimmings, overrun with rambler roses up to the top.
- They went away directly after lunch, her father told her, to the chalet on the mountain back of the town.