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FOOTSTOOL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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)

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 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)