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footpans

footpans is the plural of footpan.

Meaning of footpan

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, […]...

Questions about footpans

What is footpans the plural of?
Footpans is the plural of footpan.

Words near footpans in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footpans (page history and authors); footpan (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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