fauteuil

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/fəʊˈtɜː.i/ (UK)
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/fəʊˈtɜː.i/ (UK) · /ˈfoʊ.tɪl/ (US)

Definition of fauteuil

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
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noun

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

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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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