fauteuil

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UK/fəʊˈtɜː.i/US/ˈfoʊ.tɪl/

noun

An armchair.

OriginFrench fauteuil →
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Meanings

nounfauteuil (plural fauteuils)

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. broadlyMembership in the Académie française.

Origin

  1. Frenchfauteuil
  2. Englishfauteuil

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

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APA

fauteuil. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fauteuil

MLA

“fauteuil.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fauteuil. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fauteuil,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fauteuil.

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