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chapeaux

chapeaux is the plural of chapeau.

Meaning of chapeau

Noun

chapeau (plural chapeaus or chapeaux)

  1. A hat.
  2. A cap of maintenance.
  3. The mass of grape solids that floats on the surface during the fermentation of wine.
  4. The text at the start of a numbered section of a legal document that appears directly beside the section number, ahead of any numbered subsections.
  5. (international law) A passage of introductory text appearing in a treaty that broadly defines its principles, objectives, and background.

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Questions about chapeaux

What is chapeaux the plural of?
Chapeaux is the plural of chapeau.

Words near chapeaux in the dictionary

  1. chapeau
  2. chapeau-bras
  3. chapeaued
  4. chapeaugraphy
  5. chapeaus
  6. chapeaux
  7. chapeaux-bras
  8. chaped
  9. Chapei
  10. Chapek
  11. Chapeks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chapeaux (page history and authors); chapeau (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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