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foot-stool en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of footstool.
   alt of footstool
   • But, anyhow, the memory of him sitting there in the arm-chair with his feet on the foot-stool, holding my hand, smoking the cigarette I had lighted for him and talking brilliantly, would remain with me through life as an exquisite sorrow by means of which, in the end, I’d mount to perfect happiness before the throne of God. 1922, Gerald O’Donovan, Vocations, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, pages 61–62:
   • […] its greatest elegancies and ornaments were a faded foot-stool of Julia’s work, too ill done for the drawing-room, three transparencies, made in a rage for transparencies, for the three lower panes of one window, where Tintern Abbey held its station between a cave in Italy, and a moonlight lake in Cumberland; […] 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 318:
   • A number of such Nabals there are now-adays, that tyrannize over, and trample upon their wives, as if they were not their fellows, but their foot-stools, […] 1656, John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the New Testament. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R. W. and are to be sold by Nath. Ekins, […], page 80:

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