chauffeuse

[ shoh-fœz ]

noun

, French Furniture.

, plural chauf·feuses [shoh-, fœz].

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of chauffeuse¹

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

Example Sentences

He loved to have her drive him around, and dubbed her, with surprising grammatical accuracy, as “my little chauffeuse.”

From Time

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

From BBC

“No, Mort—I’m a prudent goddess—a chauffeuse extraordinary.”

From Project Gutenberg

By good luck or good management the pursuing car struck Philip's fairly and squarely in the back, and the two raced on together down the hill, locked together like engine and tender, the sorely handicapped little chauffeuse behind exerting all her small strength to keep her leading wheels from slewing round.

From Project Gutenberg

A moment later she whirled her away from an alley of roses where Stowe Webb was blundering along in such eager search of Alice that he would have walked into her mother but for Winifred's alertness as a chauffeuse.

From Project Gutenberg