fauteuil

[ foh-til; French foh-tœ-yuh ]

/ ˈfoʊ tɪl; French foʊˈtœ yə /

French Furniture. an upholstered armchair, especially one with open sides.

Compare bergère.

Origin of fauteuil

1735–45; < French; Old French faldestoel, faudestueil < Old Low Franconian *faldistôl; see faldstool

Perhaps his highest honor, during a life of honors, was his refusal of an election to a fauteuil in the Acadmie Franaise.

The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume II (of 2) |Benjamin Ellis Martin
She nestled a little nearer him on the fauteuil where they were sitting.

Lancaster's Choice |Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
But he did not go to bed for that hour, he slept in a fauteuil.

Ten Years Later |Alexandre Dumas, Pere
In 1829 he published a volume of verse of great merit; this and the Spectacle dans un Fauteuil made him famous at once.

Contes Franais |Douglas Labaree Buffum

With that, she would draw from under her fauteuil a little drum, which she would place between her feet on a foot-stool.

Later Queens of the French Stage |H. Noel Williams

fauteuil

/ (ˈfəʊtɜːɪ, French fotœj) /

an armchair, the sides of which are not upholstered

C18: from French, from Old French faudestuel, folding chair, of Germanic origin; see faldstool