noun. An upholstered armchair usually having sides that are open.

noun. An arm-chair; particularly, in French usage, the seat of a presiding officer; the chair; hence, the dignity of presidency; specifically, the seat of a member of the French Academy (in reference to the forty seats provided for it by Louis XIV.); hence, membership in the Academy.

noun. An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.

noun. Chair of a presiding officer.

noun. An armchair.

noun. The chair of a presiding officer.

noun. Membership in the Académie française.

noun. an upholstered armchair

"Awkward, ill-bred people, being ashamed, commonly sit bolt upright and stiff; others, too negligent and easy, se vautrent dans leur fauteuil, which is ungraceful and ill-bred, unless where the familiarity is extreme; but a man of fashion makes himself easy, and appears so by leaning gracefully instead of lolling supinely; and by varying those easy attitudes instead of that stiff immobility of a bashful booby."

droit de fauteuil  

armchair  

armchair