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Chenier

Chenier

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A family name from France often used for places in Louisiana
  • proper noun
  • /ʃəˈnɪr/
translation icon : Chenier
  • Nor had Doug ever known Bob Chenier to wear a straitjacket.
  • Chenier by Phil
  • Chenier by Clifton
  • Andrea Chenier

Examples

  • Andrea Chenier, by Giordano.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Louis de Chenier was appointed French Consul at Mogador (now Essaouira) in 1767.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Take charge of the shop, Chenier.

    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

  • "Otum Chenier wants me to take care of it while he's gone down to Lake Charles.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • - Chenier!

    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

  • It's Andrea Chenier.

    Philadelphia (1993)

  • Many of these "grandfathered" marsh management projects are located in the Grand, White, and Calcasieu Lake drainage basins of the Chenier plain and the Terrebonne and Caillou Bay basins of the deltaic plain.

    Academic text (1992)

  • In 1913, approximately 150 years after Chenier's report of homosexual prostitution in Fez, a French doctor in the recently proclaimed (1912) French Protectorate found that little had changed.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The festival was held in a quaint town called Chenier in Louisiana.

  • Phil Chenier, a famous basketball player, played for the Washington Bullets.

Surface Forms

Chenier main

Etymology

Chenier comes from the French word chêne, which means 'oak'. It was first used for a place where oaks grew, so people from that place took the name Chenier, and today it appears as a family and place name in France and Louisiana.