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footstool

[foot-stool] / ˈfʊtˌstul /
NOUN
footrest
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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

Prince William, pictured in shorts and a khaki polo shirt, is sitting on a gold footstool alongside his wife in a long-sleeved dark green summer dress.

From BBC Dec. 10, 2021

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

People were listening: in the three months after the video aired, the company sold 195,000 footstools, and grossed more than $7m.

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

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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