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单词 château
释义

châteaun.

/ˈʃatəʊ/
Forms: Also 1700s shattow. Plural châteaux.
Etymology: < French château < Old French chastel < Latin castellum castle n.
a. A castle; a large mansion or country house (cf. castle n. 3): used only in reference to France and other parts of the Continent. (Formerly in more general use.) Also occasionally used in reference to Britain. Also attributive and in other combinations.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > large or palatial
palacec1300
dome1553
residencea1616
great house1623
mansion house1651
palazzo1657
châteauc1739
mansion1815
palacio1839
haveli1871
puri1935
c1739 J. Nixon Let. in E. Hamilton Mordaunts (1965) viii. 165 As for our Manner of Life it is (like our Château) collegiate.
1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 186 Then General Webb took two Regiments..and marched them along in order to beat the French out of a Shattow.
1756 H. Walpole Let. 18 June (1857) III. 21 I..return to my château this evening.
1789 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) iv. 37 At a distance..was a chateau of a considerable German nobleman.
1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Dalziel The mansion-house of Dalziel, attached to the old tower or chateau of the manor.
1844 N. P. Willis Pencillings cxxxvii. 212/2 The river is between you and the chateau [sc. Abbotsford] as you come down to Melrose from the North.
1850 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Representative Men iv. 162 From a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his chateau.
1878 J. Morley Diderot I. 109 He was transferred from the dungeon to the château.
1903 R. Gower Rec. & Reminisc. xxi. 211 Boughton, a gloomy French château-looking house.
1963 House & Garden Mar. 57/1 ‘Visit the Château Country’ adjure the travel posters. And that, of course, means the châteaux of the Loire.
b. A French vineyard, usually in the neighbourhood of a château; frequently in the names of wines made at these vineyards.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > viticulture > [noun] > vineyard
winyardc888
vinera1340
vineyarda1340
vinea1382
vineryc1420
vine-gardenc1449
vine-garthc1450
vignoble1480
château1754
cru1824
vintage1840
wine farm1923
1754 Chesterfield in World No. 91. ¶2 The wine was the very same which they had all approved of the day before; and..was true Chateau Margoux.
1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines v. 148 In this commune is grown the famous first quality, Château Margaux.
1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines v. 150 Nearly all the Château Lafitte, and indeed most of the other growths of this commune, are consumed in England. It is lighter than Château Latour.
a1845 R. H. Barham Lord of Thoulouse in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 186 Chambertin, Chateau Margaux, La Rose, and Lafitte.
1886 Colonial & Indian Exhib.: Official Catal. S. Austral. Court 34/2 Twenty cases and one quarter cask Chateau Beaumont wine.
1894 ‘X. L.’ Aut Diabolus aut Nikil 20Chateau Margaux, M. l'Abbé?’ murmured the butler in his ear.
1929 C. Beaton Diary 7 Dec. in Wandering Years (1961) 181 A little soufflé should be washed down with a glass of Chateau Yquem.
1954 ‘N. Blake’ Whisper in Gloom ii. xiii. 183 I don't think they found our Château d'Yquem... Shall I bring you up a bottle?
1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xv. 204 I spent it riotously on château wines.
c. châteaux in air, chateau(x) en Espagne, château in Spain, Spanish château = castles, or a castle, in the air (see castle n. 11).
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun]
castle in Spainc1400
reverie1477
brown studyc1555
castle in the skies1576
castle in the air1579
comedown1583
memento1587
towers in the air1599
daydream1651
dream1732
air castle1786
châteaux in air1793
chateau(x) en Espagne1834
cloud-castle1887
pipe dream1890
fantasy1926
1793 W. Cowper To W. Hayley Dear architect of fine chateaux in air.
1834 A. Prinsep Baboo II. 351 I framed a thousand domestic rules, and built a multitude of chateaux en Espagne.
1840 New Monthly Mag. 59 349 Higgins had been Almascharizing [sic]—building chateaux en Espagne.
1852 C. J. Lever Daltons xxi It was, however, an Irish fortune, and, like a Spanish château, its loss is more a question of feeling than of fact.
1854 N. Hawthorne Mosses I. 270 She endowed him..with an unreckonable amount of wealth. It consisted..of half a million acres of vineyard at the North Pole, and of a castle in the air, and a chateau in Spain.
1873 J. S. Mill Autobiogr. iv. 91 It had been a part of their Château en Espagne that my father should be the editor.
1888 Church Q. Rev (Dixon) Mere châteaux en Espagne, the creation of architectural fancy run mad.

Compounds

château-bottled adj. (of a wine) bottled at the vineyard.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > qualities or characteristics of wine > [adjective] > bottled in specific place
château-bottled1888
estate-bottled1940
London-bottled1959
domaine-bottled1960
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 605/2 All the finer descriptions are put into bottle before shipment, the corks bearing the name of the château and the vintage, as is the case with the château-bottled red wine.
1937 Times 30 Dec. 6/3 Our now suddenly enlarged architectural cellar will, for some time, have a lot of queer wine in it that the fully qualified château-bottled vintages will find surprising company.
1959 Times 27 Nov. 11/7 A château-bottled wine from the great châteaux will always be good.
1969 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 10/5 Branded wines..are relatively cheap, whereas domaine- and château-bottled wines are becoming increasingly expensive.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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