Definition of "fauteuil" [‖Fau•teuil]

• An upholstered armchair usually having open sides. (noun)

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• "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."
• "My fauteuil was a plank, and the orchestra surpassed the worst tortures of the Inquisition."
• "Mr. Baldwin loved to put a single leather fauteuil in otherwise contemporary rooms, nowhere more effectively than his own studio apartment."