The French word for chimney is
cheminée
Gender
The gender of cheminée is feminine. E.g. la cheminée.Plural
The plural of cheminée is cheminées.French Definition
chimney | |
1. n. Cheminée. | |
Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. (Bleak House - Charles Dickens) | |
La fumée tombe des tuyaux de cheminée, bruine molle et noire, traversée de petites pelotes de suie qu'on prendrait pour des flocons de neige portant le deuil du soleil. |
Translations for chimney and their definitions
cheminée | |||
1. n-f. a chimney | |||
2. n-f. a fireplace or hearth | |||
3. n-f. a vertical vent, exhaust or gallery | |||
4. n-f. a hole at the centre of some models of parachute | |||
5. n-f. the glass tube protecting the flame of a kerosene or similar wick lamp | |||
6. n-f. (technology) a vertical vacuum forming in a gasifier | |||
7. n-f. (welding) a type of welding fault | |||
8. n-f. (geology) the exhaust of a volcano | |||
9. n-f. (geology) a vertical mineral vein | |||
10. n-f. (theatre) large pipe containing ropes that serves to control theater backdrops |
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