chevet

English

Etymology

French, head of the bed, diminutive from chef (“head”).

Noun

chevet (plural chevets)

1. (architecture) The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chevet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French chevez, from Latin capitium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃə.vɛ/

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Noun

chevet m (plural chevets)

1. bedside
2. (architecture) apse, chevet

Derived terms

• livre de chevet
• table de chevet

Further reading

• “chevet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.