footstool
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footstools
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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 ● Dec. 23, 2025
But there's more, he admits, in the attic, drawers, a footstool and other boxes.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2024
Lanoba’s first sale was a footstool to a psychologist in Manhattan, which Balderskilde delivered to the buyer’s office.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
A mismatched loveseat and footstool, brought back to life in vintage deadstock fabric.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2021
On a footstool, tattlers sit in piles like stacks of warm sugar crepes.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
But before the aliens arrive, in the form of cute little furry “pouffes” that resemble comfy footstools, we get to know Su and Jack.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 30, 2020
Everybody stands on footstools around the maple-wood prep table to gain the leverage needed to make dough in big stainless-steel bowls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2018
Men sat in groups outside on footstools, and everyone walked down the middle of the street, where the weight of a thousand eyes produces a strange feeling of both protection and surveillance.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2016
What is not visible to the naked eye is how the ivories must have once looked when they were attached with metal pins to long-rotted chairs and footstools.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2011
It was stuffy and cluttered, yet nobody could say it was uncomfortable; there were soft chairs and footstools, drinks and books, boxes of chocolates and plump cushions.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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