Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The depression surrounding a salt marsh or lake, especially in North Africa.
- noun The bed of a dried salt marsh.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from Arabic šaṭṭ, bank, coast, from šaṭṭa, to exceed, deviate; see śṭṭ in Semitic roots.]
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Examples
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It was the flamingoes rising and flying over the chott, the one daily phenomenon of the desert which the woman on the roof still loved to watch.
The Golden Silence 1901
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Maïeddine to reach there first, so they stopped by the chott, and lunched from a smartly fitted picnic-basket Lady MacGregor had brought.
The Golden Silence 1901
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Just as he came in sight of the great chott between Biskra and
The Golden Silence 1901
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There was a _chott_, or dried desert lake, glistening white and livid blue, full of ghostly reflections, to cross; but once on the other side all the poetic romance of fairy gardens and magic mirrors vanished.
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