château d'eau

[ shah-toh doh ]

noun

, French.

, plural châ·teaux d'eau [shah-toh , doh].

1. an architecturally treated fountain or cistern.

Word History and Origins

Origin of château d'eau¹

Lit: castle of water

Example Sentences

Dog-fouling is a 20th-century, quintessentially urban problem Facebook Twitter Pinterest Montpellier’s Chateau d’Eau, with four of the city’s 26,000 dogs.

From The Guardian

Groups of men stood in front of the African hair-braiding shops by the Chateau d’Eau Métro stop, talking and smoking.

From The New Yorker

Château d’Eau is adjacent to the riverside park called Prairie des Filtres, so I wandered over to the lush grass sloping down to the river and a view of the stately buildings lining the Quai de Tounis across the Garonne.

From New York Times

Another address, in which Hugo expounded his views of the future of humanity, of labour and progress, etc., was delivered at Château d'Eau, on behalf of the Workmen's Congress at Marseilles.

From Project Gutenberg

"K�rim," his first stage work, brought out in 1887 at the Th��tre du Chateau d'Eau, provisionally given up to operatic performances, does not appear to have excited much attention, possibly owing to the inadequacy of the interpretation.

From Project Gutenberg