Etymology

chapeau

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Middle French chappeau ← French chapeau
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  1. French · borrowed fromchapeau
  2. Middle French · borrowed fromchappeau
  3. English todaychapeau

Borrowed from Middle French chappeau. The interjection is after Modern French chapeau in similar use, originally short for chapeau bas.

Words from the same roots

Frenchchapeau all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.