Crossword-Solution: CHAPEAUX 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 22

Gentlemen on foot, with chapeaux and swords, carrying a cloak on their shoulders; ladies in visiting dress; habitans and their wives in unchanging costume; soldiers in uniform, and black-gowned clergy, mingled in a moving picture of city life, which, had not Amélie's thoughts been so preoccupied to-day, would have afforded her great delight to look out upon.

Cette gent était échelonnée sur le parcours, avec des musiques, des accordéons, des vielles; ils tendaient leurs mains, leurs sébiles, leurs chapeaux, pour recevoir des aumônes que Yann leur lançait avec son grand air noble, et Gaud, avec son joli sourire de reine.

Whatever slight differences arose from time to time among them were amicably adjusted by their elders." Our driver says "étwelles" for _étoiles_, "fret" for _froid_, "si" for _oui_, etc.; the dancing crests of the waves he calls "chapeaux blancs", which is similar to our appellation, and also speaks of "un bon _coop_ de thé", showing that an English word is occasionally adopted, though hardly recognizable in their peculiar phraseology.

The dress of these exquisites was ruled by a punctilious etiquette, and their knee-breeches, lace ruffles, diamond buckles, and _chapeaux bras_ were subject to the strictest regulations and to every fluctuation of the prevailing mode.

The mother has taste and judgment, and the youth has yet some unperverted affinity with graceful forms left, and so they choose and buy one of these comfortable and elegant chapeaux.