'Chalet' definitions:
Definition of 'chalet'
(from WordNet)
noun
A Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style
Definition of 'Chalet'
From: GCIDE
- Chalet \Cha*let"\, n. [F.]
- 1. A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland. [1913 Webster]
- Chalets are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages. [1913 Webster]