Definitions for chevet

chevet che·vet

Spelling: [shuh-vey]
IPA: /ʃəˈveɪ/

Chevet is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in chevet (ceehtv).

Definitions for chevet

noun

  1. an apse, as of a Gothic cathedral.

Origin of chevet

1800-10; French, earlier chevès, Old French chevez ≪ Latin capitium opening or covering for the head. See caput

Examples for chevet

This interesting church is largely Romanesque in style (tower, chevet and nave).

It is more imposing than that of chevet in the Palais Royal.

Such deeds were not uncommon, and chevet had made no friends to cherish his memory.

chevet breathed heavily, and I caught the mutter of his voice.

The chapels of the chevet were finished at the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century.

Beyond the chevet stood a tower of which the actual one is a replica.

Cassion has but given orders, and chevet is mum as an oyster.

The papers supposed to be taken from the dead body of chevet?

The first light in the Lyons chevet celebrates the local martyrs.

My father died in that faith, Monsieur, but chevet called me a beggar.

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