Silouhette Silhoutte Silhouette

Silhouette: sil-hou-ette
noun
Etymology: French, from Etienne de Silhouette died 1767 French controller general of finances; perhaps from his ephemeral tenure
1 : a likeness cut from dark material and mounted on a light ground or one sketched in outline and solidly colored in
2 : the outline of a body viewed as circumscribing a mass

Who'd have thought this word would have such an obscure etymology??
And this is a difficult word to spell huh??