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Date: 1200-1300
Language: Old French
Origin: chatel 'property', from Latin capitalis; CAPITAL2

chattel

 noun
     
chat‧tel [countable]
law old-fashioned a piece of personal property that you can move from one place to another:
a society in which women are considered to be chattels
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