Definition of "faut" []

• Obsolete or dialectal (Scotch) forms of fault.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""He didna ken," said T'nowhead, "but the faut was his ain."
• "But when you arrive at the Comme il faut showroom, its stark simplicity comes as a great surprise."
• "Distinctions such as these were bread and butter to Baroness Staffe, the self-appointed 19th-century arbiter of what was and wasn't comme il faut the done thing."