chappe

[ shap ]

noun

1. schappe silk.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chappe¹

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

M. Chappe, the inventor of the semaphore, tried about the year 1790 to introduce a synchronous electric telegraph, and failed.

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This gave 64 different signs, but was defective in the same point as that of Chappe.

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Observer, after an interval of ten minutes: Are you ready, Chappe?

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It was as though Chappe had indeed something to say and meant to say it.

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Chappe washed his hands, so to say, of Robert and his doings.

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