"foldstool" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Medieval Latin faldistōlium, from Proto-West Germanic *faldistōl. By surface analysis, fold + stool. See also faldstool.",
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      "form": "foldstools",
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          "ref": "1978, Hardware Retailing - Volume 134, page 105",
          "text": "Handibasket with foldstool",
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          "ref": "2004, Maj Gen D. K. Palit, Musings & Memories, page 196",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2020, Francis Marion Crawford, Arethusa",
          "text": "Yulia had pushed forward a large foldstool, and Zoë motioned to her and her companion to sit down in a corner.",
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          "ref": "1853, James Grant, Memoirs of James, Marquis of Montrose, K.G. Captain General of Scotland, page 29",
          "text": "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?\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Elizabeth Chadwick ·, A Place Beyond Courage",
          "text": "He kicked a leather foldstool out of his way and threw himself down in his barrel chair, breathing hard.",
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          "ref": "2004, Maj Gen D. K. Palit, Musings & Memories, page 196",
          "text": "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.",
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