footpace
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[edit]Noun
[edit]footpace (plural footpaces)
- A walking pace or step.
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXVII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page 185:
- We went at a foot-pace, but on the way back we trotted, and there was something to my mind singularly horrible in the way the driver of the hearse whipped up his horses.
- A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.
- 1876, Edward Lewes Cutts, Traditions of Christian Art:
- The king has laid his crown on the ground beside him , and the covered box which represents his present stands on the footpace.
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[edit]- “footpace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.