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footstools

footstools is the plural 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

Questions about footstools

What is footstools the plural of?
Footstools is the plural of footstool.

Words near footstools in the dictionary

  1. footstink
  2. footstone
  3. footstones
  4. footstool
  5. footstooled
  6. footstools
  7. footstove
  8. footstoves
  9. footstrike
  10. footstrikes
  11. footsure

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