<B>faldstool, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a chair, armless and, formerly, folding, used by a bishop or other prelate when officiating in his own church away from the throne, or in a church not his own. <DD><B> 2a. </B>a movable folding stool or desk at which worshipers kneel during certain acts of devotion. <DD><B> b. </B>such a stool used by the sovereigns of Great Britain at the ceremony of coronation. <DD><B> c. </B>(in the Church of England) a small desk at which the litany is said or sung. </DL>
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<B>fale, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in Samoa) a house, especially a house with open sides and a thatched roof supported by poles with palm-leaf blinds that can be rolled down. </DL>