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fauteuil

UK/fəʊˈtɜː.i/US/ˈfoʊ.tɪl/

fauteuil noun: an armchair.

Noun

fauteuil (plural fauteuils)

  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.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 96
  2. The chair of a presiding officer.
  3. (broadly) Membership in the Académie française.

Forms of fauteuil

pluralfauteuils

Origin of fauteuil

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

Questions about fauteuil

What does fauteuil mean?
Fauteuil means an armchair.
What part of speech is fauteuil?
Fauteuil is a noun.
How do you pronounce fauteuil?
Fauteuil is pronounced /fəʊˈtɜː.i/ (UK).
What is the plural of fauteuil?
The plural of fauteuil is fauteuils.

Words near fauteuil in the dictionary

  1. faustoviruses
  2. faustulid
  3. faustulids
  4. fausty
  5. faute de mieux
  6. fauteuil
  7. fauteuils
  8. Fauth
  9. Fauths
  10. fautor
  11. fautors

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