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.