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footpace

footpace noun: a walking pace or step.

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 footpace

pluralfootpaces
alternative formfoot pace
alternative formfoot-pace

Origin of footpace

From foot + pace.

Questions about footpace

What does footpace mean?
Footpace means a walking pace or step.
What part of speech is footpace?
Footpace is a noun.
What is the plural of footpace?
The plural of footpace is footpaces.

Words near footpace in the dictionary

  1. footnoted
  2. footnoter
  3. footnoters
  4. footnotes
  5. footnoting
  6. footpace
  7. footpaces
  8. footpad
  9. footpadded
  10. footpaddery
  11. footpadding

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