fauteuil
common noun
Syllable Decomposition
fauteuilfrom the Frankish faldistôl "folding seat", which gives the Old French (12th century) faldestoed; (1165-70) faudestuel (Chrétien de Troyes); (13th century) faudestueil; (1589) fauteuil (E. Bonnaffé, inventory of the furniture of Catherine de Médicis). See falten Stuhl in German for modern equivalents of the compound word.
Definitions
- meubles
Plural
fauteuils
Translations
german:Sessel
english:armchair
danish:lænestol
spanish:butaca
finnish:nojatuoli
italian:poltrona
dutch:fauteuil
portuguese:poltrona
russian:кресло
swedish:länstol
turkish:koltuk