chaumière

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French

Etymology

From chaume +‎ -ière.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃo.mjɛʁ/
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Noun

chaumière f (plural chaumières)

  1. thatched cottage
    • 1795, Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, Maximes et pensées, chapitre I, Maximes générales
      L’ambition prend aux petites âmes plus facilement qu’aux grandes, comme le feu prend plus aisément à la paille, aux chaumières qu’aux palais.
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    • 1905-1915, Renée Vivien, “Les Quatre Vents”, in Poèmes en Prose:
      Je répondis au Vent de l’Ouest : « Je ne puis quitter mon village. Car la jeune fille que j’aime y demeure. » Le Vent de l’Ouest s’enfuit, lui aussi, dans un frisson d’ailes. Moi, je demeurai solitaire, dans la bonne chaumière où le feu brûlait. Et je regarde les flammes.
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  2. (literary, humorous) (small rural) cottage

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