[a. F. fauteuil, f. OF. faudeteuil, faldestoel:—med.L. faldistolium FALDSTOOL.] An arm-chair.
1744. Gray, in Gosse, Life (1882), 74. Squatted me into a fauteuil.
1771. H. Walpole, Lett. Cntess. Ossory (1857), V. 324. The mountain-gods … pulling their fauteuils across a continent.
1813. Examiner, 1 Feb., 71/2. Sofas, fauteuils, console-tables, girandoles.
1866. Mrs. H. Wood, St. Martin’s Eve, xxiv. (1874), 299. She had been leaning back in her grandmamma’s fauteuil, pale and quiet, but full of inward agitation.
