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an impressive country house (or castle) in France- She restored the chateau and turned it into a small hotel.
chateau = an impressive country house (or castle) in France
- The chateau has a small vineyard.
- Across a cove he could see the gloomy gray stone of the chateau.Richard Connell -- The Most Dangerous Game
- FATHER-ROBERT: Why not go to the Chateau of Merdailles?Eugene Ionesco -- The Future Is in Eggs
- And neither is the old man, and he never was, and I don't care what he says he almost did at Chateau-Thierry.John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
- One of these buildings is called Chateau Neuf, which means 'the new palace.'Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- The towns are close-spaced now—Chateau-Thierry and Meaux and then an unending chain of suburbs—and everything is tangled and fuzzy.Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
- He left his vehicle at the tavern in the village street, and obeyed the simple instructions which were given him for finding the chateau.Henry James -- The American
- Surely you don't object to a photo of this magnificent chateau?Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
- Hoax, Hokesh—a matter of geography and accent; this chateau was once in the Carpathians, so 'Hokesh' it is, if 'twill make your death merrier.Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
- Admiral de Chateau–Renault was so indecisive as to obey this directive, and the galleons entered the Bay of Vigo.Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- The prize-story experience had seemed to open a way which might, after long traveling and much uphill work, lead to this delightful chateau en Espagne.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- The life in the great feudal chateaux was so dull that the lords and ladies seized with avidity any amusement which promised to while away an idle hour.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- You are like the Chateau de Dampmartin, which is bursting with laughter.Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- I arrived in the neighbourhood of his chateau in the Ardennes but it was some days before I could find a pretext for gaining admission to the house.Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
- Babbitt admired the Chateau.Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- Fortier had critical information relevant to the virus, he told Gaetan, and suggested that the leaders meet at the Chateau Triomphe in the Right Bank.Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
- He again ran back to the chateau.Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
- The pastureland was green, and there were fine trees, and sometimes big rivers and chateaux off in the trees.Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises
- A supper-table was laid for two, in the third of the rooms; a round room, in one of the chateau's four extinguisher-topped towers.Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
chateau = an impressive country house (or castle) in France
chateau = an impressive house
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