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footpaces

footpaces is the plural 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

Questions about footpaces

What is footpaces the plural of?
Footpaces is the plural of footpace.

Words near footpaces in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footpaces (page history and authors); footpace (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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