foot-warmer
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[edit]Noun
[edit]foot-warmer (plural foot-warmers)
- Alternative form of footwarmer
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:
- Her flat cloth slippers were propped up on a foot-warmer, and a cat reposed on her lap.
- 1952 May, James I. C. Boyd, “The Ballycastle Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:
- In cold weather, first and second class passengers were entitled to foot-warmers; the third class passengers had nothing, neither did they enjoy any upholstery on the seats.