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fauteuil

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fau·teuil  (ftl, f-ty)
n.
An upholstered armchair usually having open sides.
[French, from Old French faldestoel, of Germanic origin; see pel-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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Noun1.fauteuilfauteuil - an upholstered armchair              
armchair - chair with a support on each side for arms


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"Monsieur d'Artagnan," said the cardinal, sitting down on a fauteuil, "you have always seemed to me to be a brave and honorable man.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
During the time which Lord de Winter took to shut the door, close a shutter, and draw a chair near to his sister-in-law's fauteuil, Milady, anxiously thoughtful, plunged her glance into the depths of possibility, and discovered all the plan, of which she could not even obtain a glance as long as she was ignorant into whose hands she had fallen.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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.
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