footpace en · NOUN
Etymology
From foot + pace.
Meanings
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A walking pace or step.
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.
1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXVII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page 185:
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A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.
The king has laid his crown on the ground beside him , and the covered box which represents his present stands on the footpace.
1876, Edward Lewes Cutts, Traditions of Christian Art:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| foot pace | alternative | lexicographic | |
| footpaces | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| foot-pace | alternative | lexicographic |
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Translations (1)
ru шаг (a walking pace or step)