All 12 Uses
chateau
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Madame Bovary
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- Chapter Eight The chateau, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting wings and three flights of steps, lay at the foot of an immense green-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees set out at regular intervals, while large beds of arbutus, rhododendron, syringas, and guelder roses bulged out their irregular clusters of green along the curve of the gravel path.†
Chpt 1.8chateau = an impressive country house (or castle) in France
- A river flowed under a bridge; through the mist one could distinguish buildings with thatched roofs scattered over the field bordered by two gently sloping, well timbered hillocks, and in the background amid the trees rose in two parallel lines the coach houses and stables, all that was left of the ruined old chateau.†
Chpt 1.8
- Then they talked a few moments longer, and after the goodnights, or rather good mornings, the guests of the chateau retired to bed.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- She looked long at the windows of the chateau, trying to guess which were the rooms of all those she had noticed the evening before.†
Chpt 1.8
- The orangery, which was at the other end, led by a covered way to the outhouses of the chateau.†
Chpt 1.8
- At last Emma remembered that at the chateau of Vaubyessard she had heard the Marchioness call a young lady Berthe; from that moment this name was chosen; and as old Rouault could not come, Monsieur Homais was requested to stand godfather.†
Chpt 2.3
- La Huchette, in fact, was an estate near Yonville, where he had just bought the chateau and two farms that he cultivated himself, without, however, troubling very much about them.†
Chpt 2.7
- Beyond the farmyard there was a detached building that she thought must be the chateau She entered—it was if the doors at her approach had opened wide of their own accord.†
Chpt 2.9
- And as she went on she recognised the thickets, the trees, the sea-rushes on the hill, the chateau yonder.†
Chpt 3.8
- You have a chateau, farms, woods; you go hunting; you travel to Paris.†
Chpt 3.8
- And now turning round, she once more saw the impassive chateau, with the park, the gardens, the three courts, and all the windows of the facade.†
Chpt 3.8
- Rodolphe, who, to distract himself, had been rambling about the wood all day, was sleeping quietly in his chateau, and Leon, down yonder, always slept.†
Chpt 3.10
Definitions:
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(1)
(chateau) an impressive country house (or castle) in France
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)