Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rest or support for the leg.
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Examples
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You look comfortable in the recliner, especially with the leg-rest up and the pictures on your lap like you are reminiscing.
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She sat up on the leg-rest portion of the chaise, keeping her blanket tightly wrapped around her.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES -- LIFE WITH SMALL CHILDREN, 1991 TO 1993 Maggie Jochild 2007
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The mattress was covered with a petate, or native mat, and there were two pillows -- a big, fat, bolstery one, and another, called _abrazador_, which is used for a leg-rest.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee
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He sat down on the table, and dragged up a chair as a leg-rest.
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Tom advanced before him, carrying the leg-rest, and stood beside Maggie on the hearth.
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I remained to dinner, but a leg-rest was provided for me, and everything done to make me feel comfortable, whilst Sir George sent a messenger to Mr. Husband, an eminent surgeon of York, asking him to see me at the hotel as early as possible next morning.
Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 Reid, Stuart J 1905
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I remained to dinner, but a leg-rest was provided for me, and everything done to make me feel comfortable, whilst Sir George sent a messenger to Mr. Husband, an eminent surgeon of York, asking him to see me at the hotel as early as possible next morning.
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Tom advanced before him, carrying the leg-rest, and stood beside Maggie on the hearth.
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1849
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After a bad night with his mother (for he insisted on taking his turn as a sitter-up) he was busy next morning before breakfast, contriving a leg-rest for Dixon, who was beginning to feel the fatigues of watching.
North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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