Definition of "faldstool" []

• A folding or small desk stool at which worshipers kneel to pray, especially one on which the British sovereign kneels at the time of coronation. (noun)
• A folding chair or stool, especially one used by a bishop when not occupying the throne or when presiding away from the cathedral. (noun)
• A desk at which the litany is recited. (noun)

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• "_ "Ah, then she felt very solemnly that she was Queen; and moving softly to a chair placed between the Chair of Homage and the altar, she knelt down on the" faldstool "before it, and meekly said her prayers."
• "Cardinal Pacelli, the future Pius XII, is seated upon the faldstool on the Epistle side."
• "Due to the small size of the parish church, the Bishop had to pontificate from the faldstool."