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Noun- The desk from which the litany is read in churches of the Anglican Communion.

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Usage examples (29)
  • Cardinal Pacelli, the future Pius XII, is seated upon the faldstool on the Epistle side.
  • Then the King returned to his chair, and knelt down at his faldstool; the archbishop said: --
  • The King having thus taken his oath, returned again at the chair; and kneeling at his faldstool, the archbishop begun the hymn Veni, Creator
  • The King sat down in his chair, placed in the midst of the area over against the altar, with the faldstool before it, wherein he was anointed.
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