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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

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

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2024

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

A plain footstool jumps to life in trompe-l’oeil black and white — both a tangible artifact and an artsy abstraction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2021

The sour aunt propped my calf on a footstool and knelt by it.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

The sixth floor, devoted to shipping, features footstools made from moving blankets.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

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

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

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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