bar stool

Alternative forms

• barstool

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Noun

bar stool (plural bar stools)

1. A stool used for sitting, often taller than a chair and usually having a foot rest, commonly placed in bars and in front of kitchen counters.

   Synonym: bar chair

   • 1973 December 22, W. Emerson Smith, “Friends are Hard to Come By”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 7:

     Although we are no longer consigned to the bar stool and bottle, we still generally frequent these places to enhance our difficult egos.

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• Bartolos, tool bars, tool-bars, toolbars