chateau

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Meaning

A castle or a fortress in France.

A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.

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The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines. Carole Bouquet

I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls. David Hyde Pierce

Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem. Gary Vaynerchuk

What else would be as impressive as a status symbol than when you are visiting a billionaire for lunch and you and dozens of other refined guests are offered a glass of fresh milk to toast everybody's health, instead of a glass of Chateau Rotschild Lafitte? To Kit

I still don't know what I'm going to be. I love acting. I would love to be an English teacher. I would love to be a housewife and have a chateau in the South of France, I would love to be a singer that travels to cafes around different towns. Bethany Joy Lenz

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner. Nicolas Chamfort

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