fauteuil

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fauteuil

/fəʊˈtɜː.i/ UK
/ˈfoʊ.tɪl/ US

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

noun fauteuils

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.
The chair of a presiding officer.
broadly Membership in the Académie française.

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@misc{fauteuil_2026,
  title = {fauteuil},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fauteuil},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}