chateau

IPA: ʃætˈoʊ

Alternative spelling of château [A French castle, fortress, manor house, or large country house.]

Examples of "chateau" in Sentences

Just behind the chateau was a wee village of dug-outs.
Now, the west wing of the chateau is the most modern part and there's nothing there that this could represent.
When he came to what I called my chateau, from nowhere, going nowhere, I hardly knew whether to call him young or old.
The chateau was a frame structure of twenty-eight rooms, lavishly furnished with Oriental rugs and imported Sheraton furniture.
“There is something which might be called a chateau; but the wiser plan would be to use the building materials in the construction of a modern residence.”
Of the 250 – 300 cases made, the chateau is holding back 50 cases for a minimum ten years to see if the wine changes back to show more of the Margaux character.
From the time of the arrival of the Empress we were in a state of terrible apprehension, and every one in the chateau was a prey to the greatest anxiety in regard to the Emperor.
Among the visitors at the chateau was the Baron de Saint Foix, an old friend of the Count, and his son, the Chevalier St. Foix, a sensible and amiable young man, who, having in the preceding year seen the Lady Blanche, at Paris, had become her declared admirer.
Looking down into the limpid quiet, where everything is so familiar, yet so alien, the eye sees, beyond those mysterious green glades, habitations of the water-country, twisted of chimney as an elfin chateau, blurred replicas of some cottage on the bank, wavering in outline and impossible in perspective.