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- noun Plural form of
faldstool .
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Examples
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It was long and low, and was crammed with an artful and rather attractive confusion of chairs and tables, faldstools, jugs, and ivory chessmen.
Madam Will You Talk Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1967
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After brief prayer, kneeling on faldstools in front of their chairs, the
The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V 1893
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Crowns and kneeling on faldstools and His Majesty formally offered the
The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V 1893
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The room itself was furnished with two or three faldstools and upright wooden arm-chairs of tolerable comfort; a table was placed at the further end, on which stood
By What Authority? Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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a solemn bore, who takes great interest in "candlesticks, ciboriums, faldstools, lecterns, ante-pend turns, piscinas, roodlofts, and sedilia": wears a long cassock which shows absurdly under the tails of his coat; and would tolerate no architecture but Gothic in English churches, and no music but the Gregorian.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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