foldstool

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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?"

词形变化

foldstools plural

词源

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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