What is "chateaux"

Usage examples of "chateaux".

The complete list of buildings, cottages, farms, villas, factories, or chateaux, burned wilfully in this way by hand, will be a formidable one, amounting to tens of thousands.

My parents lived in one of those country houses called chateaux, which are merely old houses with gable roofs, to which are attached three or four farms lying around them.

Do you know, I love those ancient French chateaux and farms in one, where salon windows look on poultry-yard and stalls.

He took me about in all directions to do the honors of the place, showed me noted scenes, chateaux, industries, ruins.

He described his suppers, his retinue, his equipages, his houses, his chateaux, his favour with the King, his successes with the fair sex, and I know not what besides - in all of which I confess that even to me there was a certain degree of novelty.

The two chateaux were only separated by the fast-flowing Rhone, which at this spot was rather narrow.

In those days before her marriage, when her mother was living, and when they wandered about Europe, dangerously near to the reputation of adventuresses, the girl had her dream of chateaux and castles and splendor.

She is where the Frenchmen in their make-believe chateaux, perfum'd, intricately bewigg'd, stop all day at their toilettes, safe from the cold consensus that ignores dream in its Reckonings, France, French agents of Death, at the worst of the fight between the Seahorse and l'Grand, in all that tearful fall from humanity, his Bowels seconds away from letting go, there had wrapp'd 'round him the certainty that whatever was come for him now, had also come for her then, not in the way of a Bailiff or Assassin, at all selective, but rather as a Dredge, a Scavenger, foraging blind, unto which Mason sens'd himself about to be gather'd, as mindlessly as any seaman above-decks, forever to him nameless.

Whig country-homes, sinister chateaux, Adriatic villas, Hungarian hot springs, Danish harems in the Turkish style, not one of their owners having hir'd him out of respect for the Dragon, nor for what he could do or find out or even tell them, when 'twas not innocently to indulge a fascination with the exotic, 'twas to permit themselves yet one more hope in the realm of the Subjunctive, one more grasp at the last radiant whispers of the last bights of Robe-hem, billowing Æther-driven at the back of an ever-departing Deity.

At about this stage her chateaux en Espagne began to rock upon their foundations.