La Chaise

[ la shez ]

noun

1. Père Fran·çois d'Aix de [per frah, n, -, swa, deks d, uh], 1624–1709, French Roman Catholic priest: confessor to Louis XIV.

Example Sentences

Opened in 1804, the 110-acre cemetery — named after Louis XIV’s confessor, the Rev. François de La Chaise d’Aix — perches on a hillside peering down at central Paris.

From New York Times

In the apartment’s office, pride of place is given to Charles and Ray Eames’s late 1940s La Chaise in white plastic.

From New York Times

“She was thinking clearly enough, but the words wouldn’t come out right. As if she’d had a stroke. When she started to speak again, her high-school French came back before her English or her Greek. Nursery words. I remember sitting by her bed, listening to her count to ten, watching her point to la fenêtre, la chaise...”

From Literature

In the current show, the “La Chaise” lounge, by Ray and Charles Eames, an emblematic object, is elevated on a pedestal in the corner of a room.

From The New Yorker

Go as fast as possible to my oratory close by the little cabinet of audience, there you will find good Monsieur la Chaise: direct him to ring the bell, and--after having told Bontems to summon Monsieur de Montchevreuil and the Archbishop, who is still here, I think--to come hither himself as speedily as possible.

From Project Gutenberg