HOW TO PRONOUNCE
chateau
/ʃæˈtoʊ/
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What does chateau mean?
noun
- Alternative spelling of château.
proper noun
- Clipping of Chateaubelair.
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IPA pronunciation
/ʃæˈtoʊ/
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He was murdered in a wing of the chateau in which he was hemmed in on all sides by Sophie's creatures.
A little later, the enemy of humanity invites the young friends of his son Montpensier to his chateau for the carnival holiday.
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It would have been of as much avail to interrogate any stone face outside the chateau as to interrogate that face of his.
“Look to this, then. Tomorrow, at two in the morning exactly, fling open the front door of the chateau. Don’t fail by an instant.”
On the hills, the path that climbs behind the chateau soon takes a sudden turn and widens into a small plain beside the meadows.