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FOOTSTOOL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person
Synonyms:
footrest; footstool; ottoman; tuffet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("footstool" is a kind of...):
stool (a simple seat without a back or arms)
Context examples:
There was the great four-post bed with amber hangings as of old; there the toilet-table, the armchair, and the footstool, at which I had a hundred times been sentenced to kneel, to ask pardon for offences by me uncommitted.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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