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footcloths

footcloths is the plural of footcloth.

Meaning of footcloth

Noun

footcloth (plural footcloths)

  1. (historical) A housing or caparison for a horse.
    • Behind Lord Howard and the Dame,
      Fair Margaret on her palfrey came,
      Whose footcloth swept the ground.1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Questions about footcloths

What is footcloths the plural of?
Footcloths is the plural of footcloth.

Words near footcloths in the dictionary

  1. footcandles
  2. footcare
  3. footcave
  4. footcaves
  5. footcloth
  6. footcloths
  7. footdragger
  8. footdraggers
  9. footdragging
  10. footdraggings
  11. footdrop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footcloths (page history and authors); footcloth (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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