Foldstool
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A folding stool or collapsible seat.
"Handibasket with foldstool"
- 2 Alternative form of faldstool. alt-of, alternative
"From the vast multitude who crowded the venerable aisles of St. Giles church, there rose a deafening shout of rage; and Jenny Geddes, the keeper of a greenstall, at the Tronbeam — one whose name has been embalmed, like another St. Helen, in the annals of Presbytery — hurled her foldstool at the Dean's head, exclaiming — “False thief! darest thou say the mass at my lug?""
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More examples"I dropped a small wicker foldstool that I always carried as part of my camp-kit on the side of the road to mark the spot and told the driver to back down the road, guiding him with my torch – till we found a convenient place to turn the vehicle around."
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin faldistōlium, from Proto-West Germanic *faldistōl. By surface analysis, fold + stool. Doublet of faldistory, faldstool, and fauteuil.
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