footrest
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The right rear passenger seat may also recline and even has an optional footrest.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
Sure, you can recline the seat or pop up a footrest, but no adjustments you can make will compare to sleeping in a real horizontal bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
The seat, footrest, and handle are all very compact.
From The Verge ● Jul. 7, 2022
In the movie’s most ferocious scene, the chair rises up on its footrest and launches an attack, eyes aglow.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2019
I turned the last oar into a footrest, lashing it on one side of the raft, about two feet from the lifebuoy, and tying the remaining life jacket to it.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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There are high chairs with built-in footrests, to give a clear view from the back of Victorian balconies where front-row patrons would once have sat directly on a low step.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
All of Cake’s vehicles come with throttles and footrests, not pedals.
From The Verge ● May 17, 2022
Perched in a captain’s chair, a padded-leather lounger with two footrests, he spins the Teresa around and drives into the larger vessel’s wake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
Moira: Yes, the chairs are super-cushy, and the footrests go up nice and high, so you’re basically watching the movie while comfortably sprawled.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2019
It was large enough for Bri to sit on comfortably and it had footrests so she could shift her weight around during the long trip to Port Authority.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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