footstool

American  

[foot-stool] / ˈfʊtˌstul /

noun

• footstools
  plural

1. a low stool upon which to rest one's feet 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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• footstools
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of footstool

First recorded in 1520–30; foot + stool

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Example Sentences

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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

Dodge that footstool on your way to this week’s Slate News Quiz.

From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2023

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

So I helped him to the chair, got his feet on the footstool, and fixed the blanket.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

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

But the limited research that exists on footstools is equivocal.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2018

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

They were always getting scratched by cats, or cutting themselves shaving, or stumbling over footstools in the dark—reasonable explanations, certainly, but for sedentary people they had an odd excess of bruises and small wounds.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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