fauteuil

Meaning

1. An armchair.
2. The chair of a presiding officer.
3. (broadly) Membership in the Académie française.

Synonyms

armchair

easy chair

recliner

reclining chair

wing chair

overstuffed chair

Translations

الكرسي

butaca

Lehnsessel

fauteuil

sillón

fauteuil

koltuk

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fəʊˈtɜː.i/

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil, from Germanic. Cognate with Old English fealdestōl (“folding-chair”). Doublet of faldistory, faldstool, and foldstool.