- footstool (n.)
[footstool 词源字典]
- also foot-stool, 1520s, from foot (n.) + stool. Earlier was fotsceomel, from Old English fotsceamel; for the second element of which see shambles. Figurative sense of "one who is the abject thrall of another" is from 1530s.[footstool etymology, footstool origin, 英语词源]