Fauteuil

Word FAUTEUIL
Character 8
Hyphenation ‖Fau teuil
Pronunciations /fəʊˈtɜː.i/

Definitions and meanings of "Fauteuil"

What do we mean by fauteuil?

An upholstered armchair usually having sides that are open. 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. noun

An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy. noun

Chair of a presiding officer. noun

An armchair. noun

The chair of a presiding officer. noun

Membership in the Académie française. noun

An upholstered armchair noun

An armchair.

The chair of a presiding officer.

(by extension) Membership in the Académie française.

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The word "fauteuil" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

My fauteuil was a plank, and the orchestra surpassed the worst tortures of the Inquisition. ❋ Leonard Merrick (1901)

Mr. Baldwin loved to put a single leather fauteuil in otherwise contemporary rooms, nowhere more effectively than his own studio apartment. ❋ David Netto (2010)

The contrast between his filigree, expressive wood base and the voluminous appearance of the seat upholstery gives the fauteuil his strong expressive character. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The concept was to create a fauteuil which surprises with lightness and convince with comfort. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There are a few of these words (PL: plaze, FR: plage; PL: meble FR: meubl; PL: fotel FR: fauteuil ... among others.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

He pointed indicating a pale fauteuil with wooden arms carved like tree limbs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

*The king and queen always had a fauteuil armchair to sit on. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are a few of these words PL: plaze, FR: plage; PL: meble FR:meubl; PL: fotel FR: fauteuil... among others. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Demain je vous parlerai de mon beau sublime magnifique RAI (non je suis pas amoureux de ce personnage) et bien sur de mon super L que si je retrouve ce putain de fauteuil en osier je vous fait le fameux "justice will prevail" ❋ Pinku-tk (2008)

Et quand j'aurai le temps et surtout retrouvé mon fauteuil en osier, je ferai une seance avec Judith! ❋ Pinku-tk (2008)

Créé pour la firme argentine Brion par le designer Batti sur le théme de la gestation, le fauteuil placentero ressemble à un culbuto géant pour adulte qui donne envie de revenir en enfance. via freshome ... ❋ Unknown (2007)

Onces someone asked me not to photograph her cat when it was under the fauteuil because the flash could frighten her. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Already the cold sweat started on my brow, already I glanced back over my shoulder at the closed door, when, to my unspeakable relief, my eye, wandering mildly in the direction of the stove, rested upon a second figure, seated in a large fauteuil beside it. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Just imagine what an important question that must be for all those Francophonic lyricists … could you use ‘fauteuil’ and ‘millefeuille’ in rhyming couplets in French ? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Il y a meme un moment ou j'ai ramassé la colle a la pelle encore le cul assis dans le fauteuil parce que j'etais tellement crevé que je ne pouvais pas me lever et quand j'etais debout je ne pouvais absolument pas me courber pour ramasser quoique ce soit par terre sans m'ecrouler au sol de fatigue. ❋ Pinku-tk (2006)

Ben j'ai pas reussi ... j'ramassais un peu a la pelle, je m'ecroulais sur le fauteuil 5 minutes, je me relevais pour enlever une pelle de colle et je m'ecroulais de nouveau sur le fauteuil. ❋ Pinku-tk (2006)

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