All 4 Uses of
chateau
in
The Most Dangerous Game
- His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau; it was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows.†
chateau = an impressive country house (or castle) in France
- The lights of the chateau were out now, and it was dark and silent, but there was a fragment of sallow moon, and by its wan light he could see, dimly, the courtyard; there, weaving in and out in the pattern of shadow, were black, noiseless forms; the hounds heard him at the window and looked up, expectantly, with their green eyes.†
- He had not been entirely clear-headed when the chateau gates snapped shut behind him.†
- Across a cove he could see the gloomy gray stone of the chateau.
*chateau = an impressive house