Fauteuil
//ˈfoʊ.tɪl// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 an upholstered armchair wordnet
- 3 The chair of a presiding officer.
- 4 Membership in the Académie française. broadly
Example
More examples"Gaston of Orleans was seated in a fauteuil, wrapped in a loose dressing-gown, everything about him betokening an indolent love of ease."
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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