fauteuil

IPA: foʊtʌɫ

noun

  • An armchair.
  • The chair of a presiding officer.
  • (by extension) Membership in the Académie française.
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Examples of "fauteuil" in Sentences

  • *The king and queen always had a fauteuil armchair to sit on.
  • He pointed indicating a pale fauteuil with wooden arms carved like tree limbs.
  • My fauteuil was a plank, and the orchestra surpassed the worst tortures of the Inquisition.
  • The concept was to create a fauteuil which surprises with lightness and convince with comfort.
  • There are a few of these words (PL: plaze, FR: plage; PL: meble FR: meubl; PL: fotel FR: fauteuil ... among others.)
  • Mr. Baldwin loved to put a single leather fauteuil in otherwise contemporary rooms, nowhere more effectively than his own studio apartment.
  • The contrast between his filigree, expressive wood base and the voluminous appearance of the seat upholstery gives the fauteuil his strong expressive character.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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