drying oven; sauna; a hot place; an oven; public baths
“C'était la première fois qu'Emma s'entendait dire ces choses; et son orgueil, comme quelqu'un qui se délasse dans une étuve, s'étirait mollement et tout entier à la chaleur de ce langage.” — It was the first time that Emma had heard such words spoken to herself, and her pride, like one who reposes bathed in warmth, expanded softly and fully at this glowing language.
Inherited from Middle French estuve, from Old French estuve. According to the Trésor de la Langue Française, from a Vulgar Latin *extupa, from a verb *extupāre, from ex- + *tupāre, from Ancient Greek τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”). This word may have originally entered southern Gaul via Marseille before the Roman conquest. Alternatively Old French estuve (“room for steam baths”) derives from Vulgar Latin *stuba (whence Occitan estuba), from Frankish *stubu (“room, heated room”). Cognate with Old High