footstool
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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
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
And although a delivery team called saying they had his footstool, they knew nothing about the missing part of the corner suite.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2021
I don’t sit, but take my place, kneeling, near the chair with the footstool where Serena Joy will shortly enthrone herself, leaning on her cane while she lowers herself down.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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
Sheldrake visits a factory that turns fungal networks into furniture — footstools instead of toadstools.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2020
But the limited research that exists on footstools is equivocal.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2018
A few Jasper Morrison mushroomlike footstools are scattered nearby; that they are made of cork is merely coincidental.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2016
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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