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footpan

footpan noun: a pan used to bathe the feet.

Noun

footpan (plural footpans)

  1. A pan used to bathe the feet.
    • The directions for personal cleanliness must have been much needed when one considers the small stock of linen and clothes that men not rich must have had; and if we may judge from a passage in Edward the Fourth’s Liber Niger, even the King himself did not use his footpan every Saturday night, and...1867, Frederick J[ames] Furnivall, Education in Early England. Some Notes Used as Forewords to a Collection of Treatises on “Manners & Meals in Olden Time” for the Early English Text Society, […]...
    • He was a native of Siouph, in the Saïte nome, and belonged to a house of no high distinction. Finding that this lessened his consideration with his subjects, he caused (says Herodotus) a golden footpan to be made into the image of a god, and when the Egyptians flocked to worship the image, he...1871, Philip Smith, The Ancient History of the East. From the Earliest Times to the Conquest by Alexander the Great. […] (The Student’s Ancient History), London: John Murray, […]; James Walton, […]...

Examples of footpan in a sentence

  • Footpans were in general use to bathe the feet.1907, George Tancred, Rulewater and Its People: An Account of the Valley of the Rule and Its Inhabitants, page 358:
  • During his travels in Egypt, Herodotus reported that an Egyptian king, Amasis, had owned a gold footpan used for washing his feet as well as for collecting vomit and urine.1998, Julie L. Horan, Sitting Pretty: An Uninhibited History of the Toilet, Robson Books, →ISBN, page 8:

Forms of footpan

pluralfootpans

Origin of footpan

From foot + pan.

Questions about footpan

What does footpan mean?
Footpan means a pan used to bathe the feet.
How do you use footpan in a sentence?
Footpans were in general use to bathe the feet.
What part of speech is footpan?
Footpan is a noun.
What is the plural of footpan?
The plural of footpan is footpans.

Words near footpan in the dictionary

  1. footpaddings
  2. footpadism
  3. footpads
  4. footpage
  5. footpages
  6. footpan
  7. footpans
  8. footpass
  9. footpassed
  10. footpasses
  11. footpassing

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