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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 locker
  2. foot lockers
  3. foot mantle
  4. foot mantles
  5. foot measure
  6. foot pace
  7. foot paces
  8. foot pad
  9. foot pads
  10. foot passenger
  11. foot passengers

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