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fontange

[fawn-tahnzh]

fon·tange

[fawn-tahnzh]
noun, plural fon·tanges [-tahnzh] .
Often, fontanges. commode (def. 4).

Origin:
1680–90; < French, named after Marie Angélique de Scorraille de Roussilles, Duchess of Fontanges (1661–81), mistress of Louis XIV
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