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footrest

[foot-rest] / ˈfʊtˌrɛst /
NOUN
ottoman
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NOUN
stool
Synonyms


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The ottoman, featuring a delightful plaid fabric, serves as a versatile piece for additional seating or as a comfortable footrest.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

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

A year later, I still have my pile of library books, tucked in a box that I use as a footrest at my desk.

From The Verge ● Mar. 11, 2021

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 put my shoulder to the footrest of the chair and heave, grunting as I push the chair toward the door.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

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

Each motorcycle had its passenger footrests down in honor of their extra “riders.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2018

They’re as big as the lounge chairs in the renovated chains, but they don’t recline; they have footrests like barbershop chairs, and you have to sort of climb into them.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2017

That day I didn’t know where to look, so I looked at his feet on his wheelchair footrests.

From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord


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