fauteuil
See also: Fauteuil
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil. Cognate to faldistory.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /fəʊˈtɜː.i/,[1] /ˈfəʊ.tɜː.ɪ/[2]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfoʊ.tɪl/,[2][3] /ˈfoʊ.tɔɪ/,[3] /foʊˈteɪ/[1]
Noun edit
fauteuil (plural fauteuils)
- An armchair.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 96:
- Gaston of Orleans was seated in a fauteuil, wrapped in a loose dressing-gown, everything about him betokening an indolent love of ease.
- The chair of a presiding officer.
- (by extension) Membership in the Académie française.
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “fauteuil”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “fauteuil”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “fauteuil”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “fauteuil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil. Doublet of vouwstoel.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fauteuil m (plural fauteuils, diminutive fauteuiltje n)
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French faulxdestueil, fauldesteul, fausdestueil, from Old French faudestuel, faldestoel, borrowed from Frankish *faldistōl (“folding seat”). Cognate with English foldstool, faldstool.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fauteuil m (plural fauteuils)
- armchair
- (figurative) seat: office or position
- 1791, National Constituent Assembly, Constitution française, présentée au roi par l'Assemblée nationale, le 3 septembre 1791 [French constitution, presented to the King by the National Assembly on 3 September 1791], Dijon: Imprimerie de P. Causse, page 42:
- Pendant la durée du comité général, les assistants se retireront, le fauteuil du président sera vacant, l’ordre sera maintenu par le vice-président.
- During the term of the general committee, should the assistants retire [or] should the chair of the president be vacant, [then] order shall be maintained by the vice-president.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “fauteuil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.