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Webster 1913 Edition
Footpace
Foot′paceˊ
,Noun.
1.
A walking pace or step.
2.
A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.
Shipley.
Webster 1828 Edition
Footpace
FOOT'PACE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
footpace
footpace
English
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Noun
footpace (plural footpaces)
- A walking pace or step.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 37
- 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. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 37
- A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shipley to this entry?)