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chauffeuse

American  
[shoh-fœz] / ʃoʊˈfœz /

noun

French Furniture.

plural

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


Etymology

Origin of chauffeuse

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

Example Sentences

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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

And the chauffeuse tossed up her chin and cried, "Not so much 'Thompson,' please!"

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

She would be chauffeuse to a gas-stove only.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

"Monster!" laughed Miss Harding, our fair chauffeuse on this return trip, raising her eyes for an instant to mine.

From John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life by Adams, Frederick Upham