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Fauteuil

Definition: Fauteuil

Fauteuil

Noun

1. An upholstered armchair.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fauteuil" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Etymology: Fauteuil \Fau`teuil"\, noun. [French expression See Faldistory.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Synonyms within Context: Fauteuil

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Support

Seat, throne, dais; divan, musnud; chair, bench, form, stool, sofa, settee, stall; arm chair, easy chair, elbow chair, rocking chair; couch, fauteuil, woolsack, ottoman, settle, squab, bench; aparejo, faldstool, horn; long chair, long sleeve chair, morris chair; lamba chauki, lamba kursi; saddle, pannel, pillion; side saddle, pack saddle; pommel.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Fauteuil

Etymologies containing "fauteuil": Faldistory. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Fauteuil" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (armchair), French (armchair, arm-chair, chair, seat), German (armchair).

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Modern Usage: Fauteuil

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Le Fauteuil hanté (1970)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Fauteuil

DomainTitle

Books

  • 240 dans un fauteuil : la saga des prâesidents de l'Assemblâee (reference)

  • Altitude et longitudes, ou, Le fauteuil flottant (reference)

  • Comme dans un fauteuil (reference)

  • Fauteuil d'orchestre (reference)

  • Le fauteuil rouge : mâemoires d'une vedette de la tâelâevision : roman (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Fauteuil

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Fauteuil à spéculum (genre anglais), overt.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fauteuil

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fauteuil roulant

24

fauteuil

21

fauteuil greorgetti

8

canapé fauteuil

5

fauteuil voltaire

3

club fauteuil

3

design fauteuil

2

fauteuil relax

2

bureau de fauteuil

2

electrique fauteuil roulant

2

fauteuil george jacob square

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fauteuil

Language Translations for "fauteuil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Lehnsessel. (various references)

   

Italian

  

poltrona (armchair, arm-chair, easy chair, heater). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

auteuilfay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Fauteuil

Derivations

Words beginning with "fauteuil": fauteuils. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Fauteuil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bauteil, Santeuil. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Fauteuil

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-t-u-u"

-2 letters: fetial, futile.

-3 letters: fault, fetal, filet, flite, flute, lutea, telia, utile.

-4 letters: alef, alif, alit, etui, fail, fate, feal, feat, felt, feta, fiat, fila, file, flat, flea, flit, flue, fuel, ilea, late, lati, leaf, left, lief, lieu, life, lift, lite, litu, luau, lute, tael, tail, tale, tali, teal, tela, tile, tufa, tule.

-5 letters: aft.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-l-t-u-u"
 

+1 letter: beautiful, fauteuils.

 

+3 letters: beautifuler, beautifully, unbeautiful.

 

+4 letters: beautifulest, salutiferous.

 

+5 letters: beautifulness, unbeautifully, unjustifiable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fauteuil


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 75 74 65 75 69 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-    ..-    -    .    ..-    ..    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01110101 01110100 01100101 01110101 01101001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#117 &#116 &#101 &#117 &#105 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0075 0074 0065 0075 0069 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4067878671877578

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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