footstool

American  

[foot-stool] / ˈfʊtˌstul /

noun

1. a low stool upon which to rest one's feet foot when seated.

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footstool British  

/ ˈfʊtˌstuːl /

noun

1. a low stool used for supporting or resting the feet of a seated person

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Etymology

Origin of footstool

First recorded in 1520–30; foot + stool

Example Sentences

His bad leg is propped on a footstool.

From Literature

If you’re in an exit row, you might also have enough space to place a small inflatable footstool like the one from Sunany available on Amazon.

From The Wall Street Journal

Alexander had drawn a map of the nursery, tinted with watercolors and oriented according to the compass, with all the furniture drawn to scale, down to the last footstool.

From Literature

She sat on a footstool with folded hands before the oversized portrait of her late husband, Lord Edward Ashton, which hung in a row with all the other ancestral portraits that lined the wall.

From Literature

But there's more, he admits, in the attic, drawers, a footstool and other boxes.

From BBC