"foot-stool" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: foot-stools [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} foot-stool (plural foot-stools)
  1. Alternative form of footstool. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: footstool
    Sense id: en-foot-stool-en-noun-JKMuSmLw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "[…] its greatest elegancies and ornaments were a faded foot-stool of Julia’s work, too ill done for the drawing-room, three transparencies, made in a rage for transparencies, for the three lower panes of one window, where Tintern Abbey held its station between a cave in Italy, and a moonlight lake in Cumberland; […]",
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