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chouette [shoo-et] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a variation of a two-handed game, as backgammon, allowing the participation of three or more persons, in which one player accepts the bets of all the others on the outcome of a game between that player and one other active player, who is permitted to receive advice from the nonplayers.
Origin of chouette 1885–90; French, from the phrase faire la chouette to play alone against a group of opponents (in billiards, etc.), literally, to play the barn owl, perhaps alluding to the owl’s watchful look Examples from the Web for chouette Historical Examples of chouette
Poor little mouse, what a fright you were in when the Chouette saw you!
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The Schoolmaster and the Chouette then went towards the door.
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With the Schoolmaster and the Chouette; and they agreed to meet again on the morrow.
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He will then be off, and after that I will have one little turn with the Chouette.
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And when you had fetched the worms for the Chouette, what did you do?
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