[f. FOOT sb. + STALL sb.]
1. The base or pedestal of a pillar, statue, etc.
1585. Higgins, trans. Junius’ Nomenclator, 203/2. Stylobata.… The foote stal of a piller, or that which beareth vp a piller, and whereon it standeth on ende.
1626. Ainsworth, Annot. Pentat., Lev. i. 15. The Priest went up on the footstall (of the Altar) and turned in compasse.
1635. J. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Banish’d Virg., 19. Sleeping with his face upwards, a goodly and well-featured young Knight, by sight under seventeene yeares of age, his shield painted over with a violet-browne, besprinkled with teares rested on the footestall of the statue.
1886. Willis & Clark, Cambridge, II. 140. The bases and footstalls shewed that the whole of the piers stood on this lower level when first erected, as far, at least, as the eastern responds.
2. ‘A woman’s stirrup’ (J.).
