What's the difference between chapeau and chateau?

Chapeau


Definition:

  • (n.) A hat or covering for the head.
  • (n.) A cap of maintenance. See Maintenance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Constantine is angry that the city has not kept its initial pledge to rehouse all the residents in those categories into three eco-friendly new apartment blocks in Babilônia and the adjacent favela, Chapeau-Mangueira.
  • (2) Repeatedly we found a kind of a deformation resembling collapse or folding up of a "chapeau claque" top hat.
  • (3) If people come here to do a film project, for example, why don’t they donate a camera?” That gentrification has opened up the area and brought new income is evident from the crowd usually milling around Bar do David , one of several eateries at the entrance of Chapeau-Mangueira.
  • (4) Photograph: Christine Cellier His father founded the first residents’ association in Chapeau-Mangueira and was involved in the luta , the struggle to remain in the favela under Brazil’s military dictatorship.

Chateau


Definition:

  • (n.) A castle or a fortress in France.
  • (n.) A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) HS2 will pass close to the modest housing estates of west Aylesbury and at a more respectful distance from Waddesdon Manor, a French chateau built on a wooded hill by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1874.
  • (2) But although the Riviera is synonymous with the eye-watering wealth of figures such as the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who has a chateau near Antibes, the region also has a large disparity between rich and poor and isn’t immune to France’s historically high 11% unemployment rate and economic gloom.
  • (3) This paper was commissioned in March 1987; prepared in draft and presented to a meeting at Chateau de Bossey, Geneva, Switzerland during 15-17 July; and revised and completed in September 1987.
  • (4) Guests have the run of the chateau grounds (with a 2.6km mountain bike track and a 50m forest zipwire) and use of the heated open-air pool.
  • (5) The broad similis group of Cornet & Chateau (1971), under which these 10 species of Synhelea were originally assembled, is not only maintained but expanded by a further 11 species.
  • (6) radiothom – "radiohead's "creep" single with my first ever b-side discovery 'faithless the wonder boy'" WiredofHermiston – The Best of the Stranglers: "The only actual albums I had were The Best of the Stranglers (Christmas present from brother who clearly just wanted it for himself) and, rather oddly, an early Elton John album, Honky Chateau I think."
  • (7) The third null allele, identified in a sample of flies from Chateau Tahbilk, was shown by 4-bp restriction-endonuclease mapping to contain a 320-bp insertion in intron 1, although this may not be the cause of the loss of activity.
  • (8) If Supper allowed to you order from more than one restaurant, I could have had condensed milk pancakes from Russian restaurant Mari Vanna for £8, with perhaps a bottle of Chateau d’Yquem (vintage unspecified) at £165.
  • (9) Nearby Rennes-Le-Chateau, described in the Cadogan Guide as "the vortex of Da Vinci Code madness", is famous for its riddles of hidden treasure and a supposed cover-up of Jesus and Mary Magdalene's married life in France.
  • (10) "We are glad you made your nest in Nechin," said Estaimpuis's municipal mayor, Daniel Senesael, at Depardieu's Belgian investiture, prior to a post-ceremony barbecue at the actor's five-bedroom chateau with 200 fellow citizens of the town.
  • (11) After much goading, Drake, ticket in hand, doggedly set off to the Hardy chateau and after a long journey arrived at the door which was answered by the maid.
  • (12) Chateau Woolsack, a mock-Tudor hunting lodge, was built for the second Duke of Westminster in 1911 and modelled on Rudyard Kipling’s house of the same name in Cape Town.
  • (13) In the early days of the flood, Zardari brought scorn upon himself with an ill-advised visit to the family chateau in France.
  • (14) • +33 2 97 65 50 30, lesmouettes.com , doubles from €98 room only Château de Bonabry, Hillion Bedroom at Château Bonabry You can't help but fall in love with this charming old chateau and its equally charming hosts, the Viscount and Viscountess Louis du Fou de Kerdaniel.
  • (15) A little further on is the ornate Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs, and right at the top, you come to the cemetery on rue du Vieux Chateau.
  • (16) While in France, Zardari went by helicopter to drop in on the 16th century chateau he owns in Normandy.
  • (17) The opulent Royal Lochnagar suites at Gleneagles, described as a "magnificent French chateau", 20 miles from Perth , cost £1,770 a night this weekend.
  • (18) The Telegraph argued those photos were taken while the duchess was at a private chateau, but the Blue Mountains picture was on a public street.
  • (19) There's an extraordinary moment when Emma waltzes up at the chateau, surrounded by the "indifferent … brutality" of the upper classes.
  • (20) The Tynan screenplay, Alex and Sophie, involved a rich married couple who pick up a pair of female hitchhikers in southern France and take them back to a 19th century chateau where they provide sophisticated sexual tuition.

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