choliambe (ko-), n.m., choliambic verse.
chômable, adj., to be kept as a holiday.
chômage, n.m., stoppage; want of work; cessation from work; enforced idleness; respite. Le — d’un moulin; the standing still of a mill.
chômer, v.a., to abstain, to cease, from work on a particular day, to rest. C’est un saint qu’on ne chôme pas; he is in no great repute.
chômer, v.n., to want work, to be at a stand-still; (agri.) to lie fallow. Il chôme de besogne; he is out of work. — de quelque chose; to stand in need of a thing.
*chondrille (kon-), n.f., (bot.) gum-succory; wall-lettuce.
chondrologie, n.f., chondrology.
chope, n.f., large beer-glass; mug of beer.
☉chopine, n.f., pint (a measure nearly equal to an English pint).
chopiner, v.n., to tipple.