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Chateau vs Chalet - What's the difference?

chateau | chalet |

As nouns the difference between chalet and chateau

is that chalet is an alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves while château is a French castle, fortress, manor house, or large country house.

chateau

English

(wikipedia château)

Alternative forms

* chateau

Noun

  • A French castle, fortress, manor house, or large country house.
  • Any stately residence imitating a distinctively French castle.
  • An estate where wine is produced and often bottled, especially in Bordeaux.

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    chalet

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (wikipedia chalet) (en noun)
  • An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
    • , author=Brian Hayes , title=Father of Fractals , volume=101, issue=1, page=62 , magazine= citation , passage=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.}}

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