Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An upholstered armchair usually having sides that are open.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An arm-chair; particularly, in French usage, the seat of a presiding officer; the chair; hence, the dignity of presidency; specifically, the seat of a member of the French Academy (in reference to the forty seats provided for it by Louis XIV.); hence, membership in the Academy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.
- noun Chair of a presiding officer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
armchair . - noun The
chair of apresiding officer . - noun by extension
Membership in the Académie française.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an upholstered armchair
Etymologies
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Examples
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Awkward, ill-bred people, being ashamed, commonly sit bolt upright and stiff; others, too negligent and easy, se vautrent dans leur fauteuil, which is ungraceful and ill-bred, unless where the familiarity is extreme; but a man of fashion makes himself easy, and appears so by leaning gracefully instead of lolling supinely; and by varying those easy attitudes instead of that stiff immobility of a bashful booby.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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My fauteuil was a plank, and the orchestra surpassed the worst tortures of the Inquisition.
A Chair on the Boulevard Leonard Merrick 1901
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Mr. Baldwin loved to put a single leather fauteuil in otherwise contemporary rooms, nowhere more effectively than his own studio apartment.
A Real American Hero David Netto 2010
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The contrast between his filigree, expressive wood base and the voluminous appearance of the seat upholstery gives the fauteuil his strong expressive character.
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The concept was to create a fauteuil which surprises with lightness and convince with comfort.
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There are a few of these words (PL: plaze, FR: plage; PL: meble FR: meubl; PL: fotel FR: fauteuil ... among others.)
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He pointed indicating a pale fauteuil with wooden arms carved like tree limbs.
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*The king and queen always had a fauteuil armchair to sit on.
Archive 2009-01-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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*The king and queen always had a fauteuil armchair to sit on.
Etiquette in the 18th century de Brantigny........................ 2009
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In paintings like "Site domestique (au fusil espadon) avec tête d'inca et petit fauteuil à droite" (1966) or sculptures like "La jubilant" (1967), Dubuffet enters an architectural dimension.
James Turrell's Skyspace Offers a Meditation on Light and Time 2009
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The first person whom she introduced him to, at that island of fauteuils and androids, now getting up from around a low table with a copper ashbowl for hub...
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor
June 5, 2008