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chauffeuse

American  
[shoh-fœz] / ʃoʊˈfœz /

noun

French Furniture.
  • chauffeuses
    plural
  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

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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

She seemed inexperienced as a chauffeuse; only by a hair’s breadth did she manage to avoid the man, and then she stopped the car.

From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones

She would be chauffeuse to a gas-stove only.

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes

The first question on the lips of the Staff when the chauffeuse comes back from taking the relatives to the hospital is, "Was it good news?"

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

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