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footpace

noun

Etymology

From foot + pace.

  1. derived from passus
  2. derived from pas
  3. derived from pas
  4. inherited from pase
  5. compounded as footpace — “foot + pace”

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. A dais, or elevated platform

    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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA