footstool

[foot-stool]

noun

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

footstool

/ ˈfʊtˌstuːl /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of footstool¹

First recorded in 1520–30; foot + stool

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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

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Finding that the Golden State is not the hellhole he has spent most of his time in office demeaning, DeSantis announces his penance will be serving as Gavin Newsom’s personal footstool.

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“We are merely being used as a footstool for American power projection and provocation in the region.”

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