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chauffer

[ chaw-fer ]

noun

  1. a small, portable stove.


chauffer

/ ˈ³Ùʃɔ˴ÚÉ™ /

noun

  1. a small portable heater or stove
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of chauffer1

1815–25; variant of obsolete chafer, Middle English chafer ( chafe, -er 1 ), probably influenced by + French chauffoir heater
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of chauffer1

C19: from French chauffoir, from chauffer to heat
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Example Sentences

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The report concluded that it was not able to verify these claims but it was "unlikely that the cars described by Alice were chauffer driven BBC cars or BBC management cars".

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They were stopped by a young constable and the chauffer said the Queen, the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret were in the back.

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"I asked that she send her chauffer but she refused. She told me he had gone to bed but it was only 6 p.m. I didn’t need her to send a chauffeur. I was pulling her leg. But her instinct was to lie for a reply. She was always odd. I took a taxi and went for a visit."

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It’s unclear why Woods did not opt to have a chauffer take him to the film site, but Woods is known, in golf circles, to prefer to drive himself to events, often with caddie Joe LaCava in the passenger seat.

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But “The White Tiger,†about a loyal chauffer to a corrupt landlord in India, is an engrossing tale of servant and master that makes a dynamic portrait of the world’s largest democracy, and the caste system that divides it.

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