fauteuil

Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil. Cognate to faldistory.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fəʊˈtɜː.i/,[1] /ˈfəʊ.tɜː.ɪ/[2]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊ.tɪl/,[2][3] /ˈfoʊ.tɔɪ/,[3] /foʊˈteɪ/[1]

fauteuil (plural fauteuils)

1. An armchair.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 96:

     Gaston of Orleans was seated in a fauteuil, wrapped in a loose dressing-gown, everything about him betokening an indolent love of ease.

2. The chair of a presiding officer.
3. (by extension) Membership in the Académie française.

• “fauteuil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil. Doublet of vouwstoel.

• IPA^(key): /foːˈtœy̯/

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fauteuil m (plural fauteuils, diminutive fauteuiltje n)

1. armchair

Inherited from Middle French faulxdestueil, fauldesteul, fausdestueil, from Old French faudestuel, faldestoel, borrowed from Frankish *faldistōl (“folding seat”). Cognate with English foldstool, faldstool.

• IPA^(key): /fo.tœj/

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fauteuil m (plural fauteuils)

1. armchair
2. (figurative) seat: office or position
   • 1791, National Constituent Assembly, Constitution française, présentée au roi par l'Assemblée nationale, le 3 septembre 1791 [French constitution, presented to the King by the National Assembly on 3 September 1791], Dijon: Imprimerie de P. Causse, page 42:

     Pendant la durée du comité général, les assistants se retireront, le fauteuil du président sera vacant, l’ordre sera maintenu par le vice-président.

     During the term of the general committee, should the assistants retire [or] should the chair of the president be vacant, [then] order shall be maintained by the vice-president.

• fauteuil roulant
• fauteuil à bascule

• “fauteuil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.