fauteuil means an armchair.
fauteuil is pronounced /fəʊˈtɜː.i/.
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil, from Germanic. Cognate with Old English fealdestōl (“folding-chair”). Doublet of faldistory, faldstool, and foldstool.
noun
- An armchair.“Gaston of Orleans was seated in a fauteuil, wrapped in a loose dressing-gown, everything about him betokening an indolent love of ease.”
- The chair of a presiding officer.
- Membership in the Académie française.