chalet

as in cottage
an often small house for recreational or seasonal use a mountain chalet for weekend getaways

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Recent Examples of chalet Though the lodge’s exterior is classic Alpine chalet, the interior is strikingly modern, with hand-hewn pine furniture and enormous picture windows. Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025 Related Articles The new chalet — expected to bow in November, in time for the winter season and in anticipation of the Winter Games next year — is to raise at the Socrepes location, where the Ria De Saco ski-slope lodge stood. Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 13 June 2025 An interior designer, diploma in hand, opened a practice in the Alps, vowing to leave ski chalets in the dust. Julie Lasky, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025 The new film from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong, which premiered on HBO Saturday night, stars Schwartzman, Steve Carell, Ramy Youssef, and Cory Michael Smith as four billionaires who gather for a weekend getaway in a mountaintop chalet. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 31 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for chalet
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Noun
  • The look and feel of the 65 standalone cottages and cabins—some with floor-to-ceiling windows and fireplaces, others with private decks or outdoor firepits—is essential to the property.
    Jess Feldman, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2025
  • Accommodations will comprise 80 hotel rooms and 23 cottages with one or two bedrooms.
    Matt Villano, AFAR Media, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • Joseph Eddy, the airline’s director of cabin and in-flight entertainment and connectivity, told me that Delta’s effort is still ongoing.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 July 2025
  • The cabin, meanwhile, is outfitted with new multi-colored ambient LED lighting, a new low-profile shifter design, and a new steering wheel that incorporates two dedicated drive mode buttons and aluminum paddle shifters.
    Bradley Iger, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2025

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“Chalet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chalet. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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