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The French word for chimney is
cheminée





chimney

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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