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Chanel
Chanel S.A. (; French: [ʃaˈnɛl]) is a French, privately held company owned by Alain Wertheimer and Gérard Wertheimer, grandsons of Pierre Wertheimer, who was an early business partner of the couturière Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel. Chanel S.A. is a high fashion house that specializes in haute couture and ready-to-wear clothes, luxury goods, and fashion accessories. In her youth, Gabrielle Chanel gained the nickname Coco from her time as a chanteuse. As a fashion designer, Coco Chanel catered to women’s taste for elegance in dress, with blouses and suits, trousers and dresses, and jewellry (gemstone and bijouterie) of simple design, that replaced the opulent, over-designed, and constrictive clothes and accessories of 19th-century fashion. The Chanel product brands have been personified by fashion models and actresses, including Inès de La Fressange, Catherine Deneuve, Carole Bouquet, Vanessa Paradis, Nicole Kidman, Anna Mouglalis, Audrey Tautou, Keira Knightley and Marilyn Monroe.
The House of Chanel is known for the “little black dress”, the perfume No. 5 de Chanel, and the Chanel Suit. Chanel’s use of jersey fabric produced garments that were comfortable and affordable. Chanel revolutionized fashion — high fashion (haute couture) and everyday fashion (prêt-à-porter) — by replacing structured-silhouettes, based upon the corset and the bodice, with garments that were functional and at the same time flattering to the woman’s figure.
In the 1920s, the simple-line designs of Chanel couture made popular the “flat-chested” fashions that were the opposite of the hourglass-figure achieved by the fashions of the late 19th century — the Belle Époque of France (ca. 1890–1914), and the British Edwardian era (ca. 1901–1919). Chanel used colors traditionally associated with masculinity in Europe, such as grey and navy blue, to denote feminine boldness of character. The clothes of the House of Chanel featured quilted fabric and leather trimmings; the quilted construction reinforces the fabric, the design, and the finish, producing a garment that maintains its form and function while being worn. An example of such haute couture techniques is the woolen Chanel suit — a knee-length skirt and a cardigan-style jacket, trimmed and decorated with black embroidery and gold-coloured buttons. The complementary accessories were two-tone pump shoes and jewellry, usually a necklace of pearls, and a leather handbag.
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Channel (noun)
The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
“The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.”
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Channel (noun)
The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
“A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.”
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Channel (noun)
The navigable part of a river.
“We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.”
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Channel (noun)
A narrow body of water between two land masses.
“The English Channel lies between France and England.”
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Channel (noun)
That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
“The news was conveyed to us by different channels.”
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Channel (noun)
A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
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Channel (noun)
A initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
“The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.”
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Channel (noun)
The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
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Channel (noun)
The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
“A channel stretches between them.”
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Channel (noun)
A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
“We are using one of the 24 channels.”
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Channel (noun)
A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
“The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.”
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Channel (noun)
A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
“Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.”
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Channel (noun)
A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
“KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.”
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Channel (noun)
A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
“NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.”
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Channel (noun)
The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
“This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.”
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Channel (noun)
The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
“The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.”
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Channel (noun)
A distribution channel
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Channel (noun)
A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated to a specific topic.
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Channel (noun)
An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
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Channel (noun)
A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
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Channel (noun)
The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
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Channel (verb)
To make or cut a channel or groove in.
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Channel (verb)
To direct or guide along a desired course.
“We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.”
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Channel (verb)
To serve as a medium for.
“She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.”
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Channel (verb)
To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
“He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn’t buying it.”
“When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.”
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Channel (noun)
a length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas.
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Channel (noun)
the English Channel
“the movement has spread across the Channel”
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Channel (noun)
a navigable passage in a stretch of water otherwise unsafe for vessels
“buoys marked the safe limits of the channel”
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Channel (noun)
a hollow bed for a natural or artificial waterway
“the river is confined in a narrow channel”
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Channel (noun)
a band of frequencies used in radio and television transmission, especially as used by a particular station.
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Channel (noun)
a service or station using a channel of frequencies
“a new television channel”
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Channel (noun)
a method or system for communication or distribution
“some companies have a variety of sales channels”
“they didn’t apply through the proper channels”
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Channel (noun)
an electric circuit which acts as a path for a signal
“an audio channel”
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Channel (noun)
the semiconductor region in a field-effect transistor that forms the main current path between the source and the drain.
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Channel (noun)
a tubular passage or duct for liquid
“fish eggs have a small channel called the micropyle”
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Channel (verb)
direct towards a particular end or object
“the council is to channel public funds into training schemes”
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Channel (verb)
cause to pass along or through a specified route or medium
“many countries channel their aid through charities”
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Channel (verb)
(of a person) serve as a medium for (a spirit)
“she was channelling the spirit of Billie Holiday”
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Channel (verb)
emulate or seem to be inspired by
“Meg Ryan plays Avery as if she’s channelling Nicole Kidman”
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Channel (verb)
form channels or grooves in
“pottery with a distinctive channelled decoration”