chauffeuse

American  

[shoh-fœz] / ʃoʊˈfœz /

noun

French Furniture.

plural

chauffeuses

1. a fireside chair having a low seat and a high back.

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Etymology

Origin of chauffeuse

1900–05; < French, feminine of chauffeur. See chauffeur

Example Sentences

At the outbreak of war she volunteered as a government chauffeuse but later transferred to the ambulance service.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2014

Momoro is the chauffeuse, adroit aloof, intelligent, guiding the satire until it is time for her to step out of it a human being like the rest.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was as a member of this unit and as chauffeuse in the devastated regions that the writer received the impressions set forth in these sketches.

From Where the Sabots Clatter Again by Shortall, Katherine

That it is appreciated is shown by the fact that at Christmas, at this house, with its staff of Superintendent, cook, parlourmaid, housemaid and "tweeny," with one chauffeuse, there were forty relations of wounded staying.

From The Sword of Deborah First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)

Speaking of those who've given all their motors to the State and those who haven't, a new social danger has bobbed up for the latter—the chauffeuse.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir