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foot-pace

foot-pace is the alternative form of footpace.

Meaning of footpace

Noun

footpace (plural footpaces)

  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.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXVII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page 185
  2. 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 of foot-pace

pluralfoot-paces

Questions about foot-pace

What is foot-pace the alternative form of?
Foot-pace is the alternative form of footpace.

Words near foot-pace in the dictionary

  1. foot-lambert
  2. foot-lamberts
  3. foot-light
  4. foot-lights
  5. foot-measure
  6. foot-pace
  7. foot-paces
  8. foot-pad
  9. foot-pads
  10. foot-post
  11. foot-pound

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