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footholders

footholders is the plural of footholder.

Meaning of footholder

Noun

footholder (plural footholders)

  1. In Welsh mythology, a virgin maiden tasked with holding a warrior's feet in her lap.
    • One particularly difficult figure is the king's footholder, the problems with which have already been clearly delineated by McKenna.2018, Robin Chapman Stacey, Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales, page 146

Questions about footholders

What is footholders the plural of?
Footholders is the plural of footholder.

Words near footholders in the dictionary

  1. Foothills County
  2. foothills larkspur
  3. foothilly
  4. foothold
  5. footholder
  6. footholders
  7. footholds
  8. foothole
  9. footholes
  10. foothook
  11. foothooks

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