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alpine-style

adjective

  1. mountaineering of or in an ascent (esp in high mountains like the Himalayas) in which the climbers carry all their equipment with them in a single ascent from base to summit
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The “chalet” is actually a wee trailer covered with a peaked Alpine-style roof, funky and drenched in patina, around which are racks of Bigfoot-themed T-shirts, knickknacks and parapharnelia all encased in plastic against the persistent mountain drizzle.

For sale: Il Casolare, an Alpine-style “mountaintop” stone home built in 1890 by Italian stone masons on three acres near Highland, New York.

The lawyer suggested that the label be changed to “German Alpine-style” cheese.

She collaborated with the farm on a prizewinning Alpine-style cheese called Calderwood, which she introduced at her store.

After World War II, tens of thousands of homes were built amid the trees, and neighborhoods are now filled with alpine-style houses with wood shake roofing and wooden decks, their yards blanketed in pine needles.

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