chalet

Etymology

Borrowed from French chalet, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”).

noun

1. An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves.
   Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid. 2013-01, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62