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foot-stool

foot-stool is the alternative form of footstool.

Meaning of footstool

Noun

footstool (plural footstools)

  1. A low stool for supporting the feet while seated.
    • In Christianity, the world is called the footstool of Christ; in this Sumerian vision, the awakened body would be called the bed of the Queen of Heaven.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 183
  2. (figuratively) Anything trodden upon or treated as subservient.
    • Thereafter, when I have eaten and drunken and made merry in my royal palace at Carcë, I will sail with my armies over the teeming deep to many-mountained Demonland. And it shall be my footstool, and these other Demons the slaves of me, yea, and the slaves of my slaves.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21

Forms of foot-stool

pluralfoot-stools

Questions about foot-stool

What is foot-stool the alternative form of?
Foot-stool is the alternative form of footstool.

Words near foot-stool in the dictionary

  1. foot-scamp
  2. foot-scamps
  3. foot-slog
  4. foot-stalk
  5. foot-stalks
  6. foot-stool
  7. foot-stools
  8. foot-strut split
  9. foot-tapping
  10. foot-tappings
  11. foot-ton

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