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 Offerings range from multi-acre custom homesites to turnkey chalets by leading firms such as CLB, Lloyd Architects, and Walker Warner. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2025 Someone under 21 could also go into a number of other establishments with alcohol licenses, such as a restaurant, axe-throwing facility, golf course or club house, movie theater, painting studio, ski chalet or stadium. Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 27 Sep. 2025 According to The Hollywood Reporter, Brosnan will play a father of two daughters who runs a chalet in the Italian Dolomites. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025 The film centers on seasoned mountaineer, Ray Cooper (Brosnan), who operates a luxury chalet in the Dolomites with his daughter, Sydney. Leia Mendoza, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chalet
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Noun
  • The 16-room inn, which has seven cottages - all named after the seven presidents born in Virginia - is also owned by Donahue.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Boomhower said the city shouldn’t be limiting development on sites that don’t have contributing resources just because some historic cottages might be nearby.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Shockley and Maycock alerted the ship’s crew but alleged the staff did not take steps to remediate the issue in and around their cabin, according to the complaint.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • And the movie, with these two sexy people sparring for about 10 minutes, only to settle their differences over whiskey before a roaring fire in a snowbound cabin that looks like a vacation hideaway, has an unironic romance-novel baby-it’s-cold-outside vibe of old-school desert-island love.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025

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“Chalet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chalet. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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