a tall headdress fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries
fontange in American English
(fɔˈ̃tɑ̃ːʒ)
nounWord forms: plural-tanges (-ˈtɑ̃ːʒ)
(often fontanges)
a portable toilet, especially one on a chairlike frame with wheels, as for an invalid; commode
Word origin
[1680–90; ‹ F, named after Marie Angélique de Scorraille de Roussilles, Duchess ofFontanges (1661–81), mistress of Louis XIV]This word is first recorded in the period 1680–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bull's-eye, commercial, gangway, picket, reservoir