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
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
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
Rosaleen dragged the footstool in front of the set and sat down, so the whole thing vanished under her.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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
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
What is not visible to the naked eye is how the ivories must have once looked when they were attached with metal pins to long-rotted chairs and footstools.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2011
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
