barstool
Americannoun
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barstools
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Origin of barstool
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Similarly, the accompanying swivel chairs from HD Buttercup and the barstool seats in the kitchen are upholstered in Bengal and Husky-durable textiles that camouflage pet hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025
If you prefer your drink in a pint glass rather than a can, pull up a barstool at The Butcher’s Dog.
From National Geographic ● Apr. 16, 2023
Turchin's prognostications would be easier to dismiss as barstool theorizing if the disintegration were not happening now, roughly as the Seer of Storrs foretold 10 years ago.
From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2023
During the gunfire, Wennerstrom first shielded other patrons and then used a barstool to smash out a window, allowing many to escape.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
“Okay,” he says, and I can tell he hasn’t heard of it, but he smiles and sits back down on his barstool and pulls me closer.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
A tavern’s open door to my right revealed a line of patrons perched atop barstools, their backs to the open door, watching a TV showing the eclipse nearing totality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
There is something bigger than beer brewing at the Francis Kite Club, a new haunt in the East Village whose artists hold performances, shape its programming and debate politics from their barstools.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
Both SoRelle’s background and the “Queer Eye” reveal pic featured five leather barstools, a bowl of lemons atop a white kitchen island and two black-and-white bovine portraits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
They replaced the windows, added new barstools and moved the furnace to increase and space out interior seating.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2021
She relaxed back against another of the barstools.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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