footwarmer
English
Etymology
From foot + warmer.
Noun
footwarmer (plural footwarmers)
- Something used to keep the feet warm, especially during a journey.
- 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 1042815524, part I, page 200:
- Her flat cloth slippers were propped up on a foot-warmer, and a cat reposed on her lap.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 357:
- stoves warmed and clarified the air, and there were always hotwater bottles and footwarmers for cold nights.