foot-warmer

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English

Noun

foot-warmer (plural foot-warmers)

  1. 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.