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Chalet


Definition:

  • (n.) A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.
  • (n.) A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.

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  • (1) Thankfully, mazot guests can also use the lounge and dining room in the Chalet Les Mazots, a lovely wood-panelled home full of antique chairs, chests and cabinets, built by a family of silk manufacturers from Leon who chose the location for their farm for its south-facing views of Mont Blanc.
  • (2) "We tried to get in contact with her at the chalet and we couldn't – she'd left," said her mother Helen, who was at the Rosa Khutor slopes with her father Pete.
  • (3) As a child growing up in the 1960s she loved comics and books including Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School stories , but a career as a writer was not on her radar because she never came across black writers or characters.
  • (4) It also has catered chalets in Italy, such as Chalet Heidi in Arabba , in the Dolomites, catered for the week 3 February for £629pp.
  • (5) But of us four girls since, Pippa died of cancer, Gilly was killed in a plane crash (on the way to my chalet in Switzerland) and Penny – the brightest of us all, the head girl at Rodean – has Alzheimer’s.
  • (6) "I'm not an educated person with any proper schooling," Fury said last year outside the Swiss-style chalet that had been his home in Essen for eight long weeks.
  • (7) He spent two months in a Swiss jail, followed by several months under house arrest at his chalet in the Swiss ski resort of Gstaad, before authorities said they would not be extraditing him.
  • (8) Brigitte's in summer, and the mazot's interior The one I stayed in last March, Brigitte's Mazot, is very cute and just for two; it's down an icy path through the garden behind the main Chalet Les Mazots, not a mazot itself, but a gorgeous 1930s chalet with eight bedrooms (sleeping 14), individually rented by other guests.
  • (9) Here are some examples: in Chamonix , Chamois Blanc 7 is a cute little apartment, with modern decor and lots of pine panelling, sleeping four from €600 in February and March, or €500 in April; while in the Tarentaise, 20 minutes from lovely Sainte-Foy , which has nice runs, great hiking into the backcountry and is within a short drive of La Rosière and Les Arcs, La Tillette is a super-stylish modern chalet sleeping eight, with massive windows and white interiors, L'Occitane toiletries and off-piste skiing to the door.
  • (10) The chalet is just off the main street and has a sauna.
  • (11) Accommodation ranges from tents in a covered long house, small bamboo huts, a raised platform named “the honeymoon suite” and the relative luxury of riverside chalets.
  • (12) • £2,499pp (£625pp) for a family of four (two adults, two children aged two to 10), staying at Chalet Verwall on 23 December.
  • (13) He was said to have used his time under Swiss house arrest at his luxurious Gstaad mountain chalet to work intensely on the film.
  • (14) The hall where it was held is only a stone’s throw from Jaywick , the jumble of former holiday chalets and potholed streets that is reckoned to be the poorest council ward in England: on the face of it, a symbol of the kind of deep social problems that tend to be synonymous with political apathy.
  • (15) We spent several nights at a friendly little chalet-style hotel called Rilindja, hiking around the local villages and eating fresh river trout.
  • (16) Hoenle's cabin, Twentysix , is set in a small crescent of huts designed by one Vic Hallam, who launched the buildings as Anderby Chalets in 1959.
  • (17) For something more affordable, a double chalet at Mango Drift costs from £20 (+265 999 746122, mangodrift.com ) 13 Traverse the 'island in the sky': Mount Mulanje, Malawi Mount Mulanje, Malawi.
  • (18) Low Cost Holidays has seven nights for £485pp self-catering, including flights with easyJet, at the Yagoda & Malina Chalets , among pine trees.
  • (19) The simple chalet where I am staying the night was home at various times to house guests including Elizabeth David and the writer Sybille Bedford, and to James Baldwin (Richard's "petit-ami"), his soulmate and sometime romance; a perfect little trio of portraits of the author of The Fire Next Time , asleep and contemplating the world over coffee, are grouped on one wall.
  • (20) Chalet La Falaise in Les Carroz , which has 144 pistes in Le Grand Massif , sleeps 10 in four bedrooms, and costs £1,600 for the whole self-catering property for the weeks starting 2 and 9 March.

Chaplet


Definition:

  • (n.) A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.
  • (n.) A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads.
  • (n.) A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc.
  • (n.) A chapelet. See Chapelet, 1.
  • (n.) A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold.
  • (n.) A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.
  • (n.) A small chapel or shrine.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers.

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