fauteuil
See also: Fauteuil
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
French fauteuil. Cognate to faldistory.
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /fəʊˈtə.i/,[1] /ˈfəʊ.tɜː.ɪ/[2]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfoʊ.tɪl/,[2][3] /ˈfoʊ.tɔɪ/,[3] /foʊˈteɪ/[1]
NounEdit
fauteuil (plural fauteuils)
- An armchair.
- 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 1, 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.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “fauteuil”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “fauteuil” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “fauteuil”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “fauteuil” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French fauteuil. Doublet of vouwstoel.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
fauteuil m (plural fauteuils, diminutive fauteuiltje n)
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French faulxdestueil, fauldesteul, fausdestueil, from Old French faudestuel, faldestoel, borrowed from Frankish *faldistōl (“folding seat”). Cognate with English foldstool, faldstool.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
fauteuil m (plural fauteuils)
- armchair
- (figuratively) 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.
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DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “fauteuil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.