Fauteuil: Definition and part of speech

Fauteuil

  1. n. Chair of a presiding officer.
  2. n. An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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