foldstool

F4O1L1D2S1T1O1O1L1

noun

A folding stool or collapsible seat.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounfoldstool (plural foldstools)

plural foldstools

  1. A folding stool or collapsible seat.

    Handibasket with foldstool

    1978, Hardware Retailing - Volume 134, page 105
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    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.

    2004, Maj Gen D. K. Palit, Musings & Memories, page 196

    Yulia had pushed forward a large foldstool, and Zoë motioned to her and her companion to sit down in a corner.

    2020, Francis Marion Crawford, Arethusa
  2. alternativeAlternative form of faldstool.

    He kicked a leather foldstool out of his way and threw himself down in his barrel chair, breathing hard.

    2009, Elizabeth Chadwick ·, A Place Beyond Courage
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    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?"

    1853, James Grant, Memoirs of James, Marquis of Montrose, K.G. Captain General of Scotland, page 29

Origin

  1. Proto-West Germanic*faldistōl
  2. Medieval Latinfaldistōlium
  3. Englishfoldstool

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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APA

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Chicago

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