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Footstool
//ˈfʊtˌstuːl// noun
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Noun
- 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."
- 2 a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person wordnet
- 3 Anything trodden upon or treated as subservient. figuratively
"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."
Etymology
From foot + stool.
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