(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.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Cottage
Definition:
(n.) A small house; a cot; a hut.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many leave banking after three to five years, not because they are 'worn out', but because now they have financial security to start their own business or go on to advocate for a cause they are passionate about or buy a small cottage in the West Country for the rest of their lives."
(2) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(3) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
(4) After hauling the food back to the cottage, they drew up a rota for the cooking, with some preparing breakfast for the group, and others sharing the duties for lunch and dinner.
(5) We used to watch River Cottage on the telly and thought: “Wow, where’s that?
(6) On 23 July, having completed his final corrections, Grant died in his summer cottage on the slopes of Mount McGregor, in New York state.
(7) The ease of deception has given birth to a brand new cottage industry.
(8) Pictures of the rebuilding of cottages would be beamed directly to "the government building, to me at home and to the website of the government", he said, adding: "Any citizen will be able to watch in real time what is happening."
(9) At the end of your journey is the Idwal Cottage youth hostel, and Cwm Idwal nature reserve.
(10) • €165 a night, i-escape.com La Mare Chappey, Manche, Normandy Just 20 miles from the ferry port at Cherbourg, this collection of cottages in the grounds of a 16th-century manor house is perfect for a hassle-free family holiday.
(11) At the time of purchase Henley Concierge was registered to a cottage on Borodin's £120m country estate near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
(12) The Pynes now live in Wakefield, in a cottage packed with photos of Morrissey and a dedicated music room stuffed with CDs and vinyl.
(13) Those that have genuine integrity are now, actually, driving a massive cottage industry around the world, which is every day reducing CO2 emissions".
(14) Ankle ligament damage has already denied Stockdale his first involvement with the national side – the Fulham goalkeeper fears he could be absent for up to two months having only just broken into the first team at Craven Cottage – and allowed Carson a return to the fold.
(15) This result was confirmed by radioimmunoassay of dry curd cottage cheese and whey.
(16) In the summer, just after his second birthday in early July, the family booked a holiday cottage in Orkney.
(17) The simultaneous ingestion of glucose with cottage cheese or egg white protein decreased the glucose area response to glucose by 11% and 20%, respectively.
(18) Principal component factor analyses, carried out separately on the youths' COPES-School and the youths' COPES-Cottage, yielded two orthogonal but similar factors in each environment.
(19) Ustinov was born in Swiss Cottage, London, an almost perfectly spherical 12lb baby and only child, descended as he later said "from generations of rotund men - it was the 214th prize in the lottery of life".
(20) Who else would have decided to leave the relative cosiness of Ditchling Village for Hopkins Crank, an unreconstructed Georgian squatter's cottage and outbuildings on Ditchling Common?