Definitions for: Chalet

[n] a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style

Webster (1913) Definition: Cha*let", n. [F.]
1. A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.

Chalets are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen.
--Wordsworth.

2. A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains;
any country house built in the style of the Swiss
cottages.

See Also: house