Meanings
plural foldstools
- A folding stool or collapsible seat.
Handibasket with foldstool
1978, Hardware Retailing - Volume 134, page 1052 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.
2004, Maj Gen D. K. Palit, Musings & Memories, page 196Yulia 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 - 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 Courage1 more example
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
- Proto-West Germanic*faldistōl
- Medieval Latinfaldistōlium
- 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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