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foot-warmer en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of footwarmer.
   alt of footwarmer
   • In cold weather, first and second class passengers were entitled to foot-warmers; the third class passengers had nothing, neither did they enjoy any upholstery on the seats. 1952 May, James I. C. Boyd, “The Ballycastle Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:
   • Her flat cloth slippers were propped up on a foot-warmer, and a cat reposed on her lap. 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:

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