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Fauteuil   Listen
noun
Fauteuil  n.  
1.
An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.
2.
Chair of a presiding officer.





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"Fauteuil" Quotes from Famous Books



... one fair entrance was practicable, and one ample exit full in view on the opposite side. Several gentlemen of fashionable bearing held the outposts of this privileged place, at back of sofa, or side of fauteuil, stationary, or wandering near. Some chosen few were within; two caryatides gentlemen leaned one on each side of the fireplace, and in the centre of the rug stood a remarkably handsome man, of fine figure, perfectly dressed, his whole air exquisitely scornful, ...
— Helen • Maria Edgeworth


Words linked to "Fauteuil" :   armchair


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