fauteuil
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Etymology
Origin of fauteuil
1735–45; < French; Old French faldestoel, faudestueil < Old Low Franconian *faldistôl; see faldstool
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"She is beautiful as a divinity," exclaimed the gallant old Marquess de Fauteuil, who had just completed an admiring survey of the fair Madame le Prun.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various
Fauteuil, fō-tey′, n. an arm-chair, esp. a president's chair, the seat of one of the forty members of the French Academy.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
These Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie were quickly followed up by a volume entitled Un Spectacle dans un Fauteuil, and Musset became famous.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
His History of the Forty-first Fauteuil, one of the brightest and wittiest of his works, will probably avail, not to open the doors to him, but to bar them against him.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
Le Fauteuil pour lever un coté de la poitrine qui seroit plus bas que l'autre; le soufflet pour donner un exercise régulier à toutes les parties du corps.
From A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium by Bernard, Richard Boyle
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