fauteuil
Americannoun
noun
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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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A plush, red velvet fauteuil tucked into the lower right corner of the picture is like an upscale launching pad, which has propelled the man to the balustrade along a tall French window.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025
“I didn’t know a fauteuil from a bergère,” she says after meeting the Kennedy family.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2013
The younger generations neither fancy such seats — you cannot sprawl in a Louis XV fauteuil — nor do they like the interior design into which gilt Rocaille armchairs can fit.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2011
The rust and dust of their long exile in cellars and attics are as carefully preserved as the patina on a Louis XV fauteuil.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Prince bade the little schoolmaster be seated on a fauteuil near him, and looked so kindly that he felt quite at his ease.
From The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance by Shorthouse, J. H.
Originally, according to David Wilmore of Theatresearch, a company that restores historic theaters in Britain, they would have had a few front rows of luxurious armchairs — known as fauteuils — for their wealthiest patrons.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
In his dingy, one-room flat on the Rue Bonaparte, oil lamps and candles light up the empire fauteuils, the portraits of Napoleon and the etchings of Napoleon's greatest battles.
From Time Magazine Archive
At any rate, M. Clemenceau was so excited that he forgot to give the usual pourboire to the female attendant who conducted him to his front seat in the fauteuils.
From Time Magazine Archive
She liked white-pickled fauteuils and Indian miniatures, 17th century drawings of uncertain authorship, 19th century Chinese blue-and-white pots, theater prints, architectural capriccios, Victorian mahogany and squishy ecru upholstery.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the entr'actes we reviewed—seated in the luxurious, spacious loge where the huge sofas and the fauteuils offered their hospitable arms—our impressions, which were ultra-enthusiastic.
From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
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