Definitions for fauteuil

fauteuil fau·teuil

Spelling: [foh-til; French foh-tœ-y
IPA: /ˈfoʊ tɪl; French foʊˈtœ yə/

Fauteuil is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in fauteuil (aefiltuu).

Definitions for fauteuil

noun

  1. French Furniture. an upholstered armchair, especially one with open sides.

Origin of fauteuil

1735-45; French; Old French faldestoel, faudestueil Old Low Franconian *faldistôl; see faldstool

Examples for fauteuil

She nestled a little nearer him on the fauteuil where they were sitting.

Her small feet—of which she had once been vain—rested on a fauteuil.

At last I was permitted to get up and recline in fauteuil or on sofa.

The attitude of upright virtue is unbecoming, like sitting too straight in a fauteuil.

Lebeau flung himself, with a wearied air, into the fauteuil.

She has flung herself into a fauteuil, and sits in pensive attitude; of late, alas!

The dame, according to her idle custom, was dozing in a fauteuil.

I wave my hand, and the lady sinks half languidly into a fauteuil.

The etiquette of the ‘fauteuil’ and ‘chaise’ is explained in Mm.

Every day he came in and seated himself in the fauteuil reserved for him.

Word Value for fauteuil
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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