Brewer's: Fald-stool

A small desk at which the Litany is sung or said. The place at the south side of the alter at which sovereigns kneel at their coronation. (Barbarous Latin, falda, a thing which folds or shuts up.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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