Obs. rare–1. [a. F. chaufette chafing dish (Cotgr.), f. chauffer to warm.]
A vessel containing charcoal for warming the feet.
1772–84. Cook, Voy. (1790), I. 316. Not one of them will stir without a chaudpied, or chauffet, which is carried by a servant, that it may be ready to place under her feet, whenever she sits down though few of these chauffets have fire in them.
