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Fauteuil

//ˈfoʊ.tɪl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An armchair.

    "Gaston of Orleans was seated in a fauteuil, wrapped in a loose dressing-gown, everything about him betokening an indolent love of ease."

  2. 2
    an upholstered armchair wordnet
  3. 3
    The chair of a presiding officer.
  4. 4
    Membership in the Académie française. broadly

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil, from Germanic. Cognate with Old English fealdestōl (“folding-chair”). Doublet of faldistory, faldstool, and foldstool.

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