chauffeuse

American  

[shoh-fœz] / ʃoʊˈfœz /

noun

French Furniture.

plural

chauffeuses

1. a fireside chair having a low seat and a high back.

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Etymology

Origin of chauffeuse

1900–05; < French, feminine of chauffeur. See chauffeur

Example Sentences

At the outbreak of war she volunteered as a government chauffeuse but later transferred to the ambulance service.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2014

Momoro is the chauffeuse, adroit aloof, intelligent, guiding the satire until it is time for her to step out of it a human being like the rest.

From Time Magazine Archive

That it is appreciated is shown by the fact that at Christmas, at this house, with its staff of Superintendent, cook, parlourmaid, housemaid and "tweeny," with one chauffeuse, there were forty relations of wounded staying.

From The Sword of Deborah First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)

And the chauffeuse tossed up her chin and cried, "Not so much 'Thompson,' please!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

She seemed inexperienced as a chauffeuse; only by a hair’s breadth did she manage to avoid the man, and then she stopped the car.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.