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foldstool

foldstool noun: a folding stool or collapsible seat. Also the alternative form of faldstool.

Noun

foldstool (plural foldstools)

  1. A folding stool or collapsible seat.
    • Handibasket with foldstool1978, Hardware Retailing - Volume 134, page 105
    • 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

Also used as

foldstool is also the alternative form of faldstool.

Forms of foldstool

pluralfoldstools

Origin of foldstool

Borrowed from Medieval Latin faldistōlium, from Proto-West Germanic *faldistōl. By surface analysis, fold + stool. Doublet of faldistory, faldstool, and fauteuil.

Questions about foldstool

What does foldstool mean?
Foldstool means a folding stool or collapsible seat.
What part of speech is foldstool?
Foldstool is a noun.
What is the plural of foldstool?
The plural of foldstool is foldstools.

Words near foldstool in the dictionary

  1. folds one's tent
  2. folds out
  3. folds up
  4. foldscope
  5. foldscopes
  6. foldstool
  7. foldstools
  8. foldup
  9. foldups
  10. foldward
  11. foldwards

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