English Explanatory Dictionary

fauteuil

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An armchair.
  2. The chair of a presiding officer.
  3. Membership in the Académie française.

Pronunciation

/fəʊˈtɜː.i/ /ˈfoʊ.tɪl/

Word forms

fauteuil fauteuils

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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