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chapeau

[sha-poh, sha-poh] / ʃæˈpoʊ, ʃaˈpoʊ /




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Fitting, given that anything more than one foot in front of her would be invisible beneath the shadow of her cockamamie chapeau.

From Salon Jan. 21, 2025

It was a different hat — a cartoonish chapeau — Kelce donned a decade ago when he began a journey that would impact thousands of children and families in his adopted city.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2024

Mistaking the Brit Awards for Royal Ascot, Ella Henderson turned up in a voluminous chapeau, which she then insisted on wearing throughout the ceremony.

From BBC Mar. 3, 2024

He had a mechanical as well, still put 40 seconds into me so chapeau to him.

From Washington Times May 27, 2023

Lady Constance tipped her head from one side to the other in front of her dressing-room mirror, the better to admire the elaborate chapeau that she had just placed upon her upswept curls.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

County deputies over the past 150-plus years — octagon-shaped uniform caps, broad-brimmed chapeaus like the one Canadian Mounties use, helmets, and more — there is no mention whatsoever of Stetsons.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2021

Watkins herself counts 75 Beane originals among her more than 150 chapeaus.

From Washington Post Sep. 27, 2019

People have used them for food, currency and hat-making material—the human desire for warm and stylish chapeaus almost wiped beavers out.

From Scientific American Aug. 20, 2018

These chapeaus are the fancy plumed caps we see in our “Then” photo, heading east up Yesler Way from Second Avenue.

From Seattle Times Aug. 16, 2018

And many and many a time I've seen The two walk down the quay With their yard-arms locked and their chapeaus cocked, To gaze on the ships at sea.

From Harper's Round Table, October 8, 1895 by Various

Any garret, no matter how grim, can be transformed into a nifty salon de chapeaux with a dollop of white paint and some moth-eaten Austrian drapes bought from the Salvation Army.

From New York Times Sep. 6, 2018

These festive chapeaux should be 3 feet in diameter so you can invite friends and family to partake in your shade.

From Slate Aug. 5, 2014

Carla Bruni is a woman who wears many chapeaux: she’s been everything from a model to, as the wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy,  the “First Lady” of France.

From Time Apr. 8, 2013

CI: That hat — she’s trying to upstage all those wedding chapeaux.

From New York Times Jun. 13, 2011

Fancy chapeaux are composed of bands of paille dentelle, alternating with rose-colored taffeta biais, &c.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various




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