footstool

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. 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.

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footstools plural foot stool alternative foot-stool alternative

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From foot + stool.
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