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château

[sha-toh, shah-toh] / ʃæˈtoʊ, ʃɑˈtoʊ /


chateau


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After making Venice her primary residence, Caland collaborated with architect Neil Kaufman on the design for her enclosed château.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Perched in his art-filled château in the south of France, the British expatriate spent years hurling invectives at, falling out with or blatantly undermining an astonishing number of people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

Established as an inn that served the lords of King Henry III, it became known as the Hostellerie de la Tour d’Argent, or silver tower, after an adjacent château that was built of silvery stone.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

With the money the couple bought a château near the Belgian border which for years served as their base of operations.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2023

They've reserved two rooms for the week at the Saint James Paris, an exclusive château hotel.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

"I invent things, you can't stop me," he told the France 3 channel in 2019 while showcasing another of his castles, the medieval chateau d'Excideuil in southwest France.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

Between 1774 and 1785, Marie Antoinette redesigned the house and gardens of Le Petit Trianon, a satellite chateau of Versailles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

As with the chateau in Season 1, Castello Rosato is not a Vanderpump property.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2025

Born in Switzerland, he had British citizenship and lived in a chateau in France.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2025

The structures in it are mostly hollow—the chateau, the cathedral, the market—but why bother to smash them all when one is missing, the very house he needs?

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

When Lee started to feel sick at Medoc, she skipped a few of the châteaus and drank water instead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

It reached its zenith during the Rococo and Neoclassical periods, gracing the interiors of palaces, châteaus and grand estates.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

“If the châteaus are offering wine that I don’t have, I’ll pay a little more to know that it’s sat in their cellar all these years,” Devine said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2020

Cove wants to see how these faux châteaus affect woodrats’ chances of becoming a cat’s dinner.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2020

You don’t see such chandeliers outside of palaces any more except in the old French châteaus.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives

“There’s been a lot more interest from top châteaux, even in France,” Sokol said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

In June, Stayton was shepherding students to châteaux Lafite, Mouton, and Margaux as part of a new partnership with France’s Kedge school.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2018

Based on these discoveries, investigators determined that scores of bottles from Kurniawan’s cellar had been produced not by the acclaimed châteaux on their labels but by Kurniawan himself.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2016

Huge profits in store for firm that can make a great leap in battery technology Chargers, châteaux and the Channel Tunnel: can you really do a driving holiday in a Tesla?

From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2016

There were some fine photographs of the châteaux of the Loire, and an article as well.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier


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