foldstool
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A folding stool or collapsible seat.
noun
Alternative form of faldstool.
Example Sentences
- "Handibasket with foldstool"
- "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."
- "Yulia had pushed forward a large foldstool, and Zoë motioned to her and her companion to sit down in a corner."
- "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?""
- "He kicked a leather foldstool out of his way and threw himself down in his barrel chair, breathing hard."
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin faldistōlium, from Proto-West Germanic *faldistōl. By surface analysis, fold + stool. Doublet of faldistory, faldstool, and fauteuil.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: faldistōlium, *faldistōl