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footstool

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Etymology

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Fromfoot +‎stool.

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Noun

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footstool (pluralfootstools)

  1. A lowstool for supporting thefeet whileseated.
    • 1981,William Irwin Thompson,The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page183:
      In Christianity, the world is called thefootstool of Christ; in this Sumerian vision, the awakened body would be called the bed of the Queen of Heaven.
  2. (figurative) Anything trodden upon or treated as subservient.

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Translations

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a low stool

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