Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contracted form of
chavel . Seechavel , n., and jowl.
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Examples
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The setting is the Mumbai 'chawl' - the city's infamous shabby constructions with little
HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines 2010
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For the last 20 years, his family has been living in a chawl tenements with one- or two -room units in Bandra, a Mumbai suburb.
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For the last 20 years, his family has been living in a chawl tenements with one- or two -room units in Bandra, a Mumbai suburb.
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For the last 20 years, his family has been living in a chawl tenements with one- or two -room units in Bandra, a Mumbai suburb.
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For the last 20 years, his family has been living in a chawl tenements with one- or two -room units in Bandra, a Mumbai suburb.
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While Ayyan ekes out an existence in an overcrowded chawl (tenement), sending his ten-year-old son to a Catholic school, Arvind puts the Institute's energies behind sending up a balloon in space to gather evidence that alien microbes are always raining on earth (hence explaining the origin of life).
Anis Shivani: Manu Joseph, Author of "Serious Men" (Interview) 2010
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While Ayyan ekes out an existence in an overcrowded chawl (tenement), sending his ten-year-old son to a Catholic school, Arvind puts the Institute's energies behind sending up a balloon in space to gather evidence that alien microbes are always raining on earth (hence explaining the origin of life).
Anis Shivani: Manu Joseph, Author of "Serious Men" (Interview) 2010
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While Ayyan ekes out an existence in an overcrowded chawl (tenement), sending his ten-year-old son to a Catholic school, Arvind puts the Institute's energies behind sending up a balloon in space to gather evidence that alien microbes are always raining on earth (hence explaining the origin of life).
Anis Shivani: Manu Joseph, Author of "Serious Men" (Interview) 2010
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I didn't know that about Jaidev Hattangadi, he must be a really strong man to live in the Wadala area dominated by middle class Maharshtrians that has a chawl culture and that too in the 80s
Bare Necessities Anjali 2008
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While Ayyan ekes out an existence in an overcrowded chawl (tenement), sending his ten-year-old son to a Catholic school, Arvind puts the Institute's energies behind sending up a balloon in space to gather evidence that alien microbes are always raining on earth (hence explaining the origin of life).
Anis Shivani: Manu Joseph, Author of "Serious Men" (Interview) 2010
erinmckean commented on the word chawl
The father, Dhirubhai Ambani, was a brazen, rags-to-riches tycoon who established Reliance Industries after rising out of the city’s Dickensian tenements, known as chawls. NY Times
October 29, 2010