Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A walking pace.
- noun A raised platform in a room, as for a lecturer; a dais.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slow step, as in walking.
- noun A mat; something on which to place the feet.
- noun A landing or resting-place at the end of a short flight of steps, being a stair or tread broader than the others. Also called
half-pace . When it occurs at the angle where the stair turns it is calledquarter-pace . - noun Formerly, the dais in a hall. See the extract.
- noun Eccles., the platform or raised dais upon which an altar immediately stands.
- noun A hearthstone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A walking pace or step.
- noun A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A walking pace or step.
- noun A
dais , or elevated platform; the highest step of thealtar ; alanding in astaircase .
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Examples
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It was a cross – country road, full, after the first three or four miles, of holes and cart – ruts, which, being covered by the snow, were so many pitfalls to the trembling horses, and obliged them to keep a footpace.
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Lord George Gordon; ‘we will follow at a footpace.’
Barnaby Rudge 2007
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Atra, who came and stood humbly on the footpace beside her, and held converse with her mistress a while.
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We found the coach very near at hand, and got upon the roof; but I was so dead sleepy, that when we stopped on the road to take up somebody else, they put me inside where there were no passengers, and where I slept profoundly, until I found the coach going at a footpace up a steep hill among green leaves.
David Copperfield 2007
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The huntsman stood halfway up the knoll holding up his whip and the gentlefolk rode up to him at a footpace; the hounds that were far off on the horizon turned away from the hare, and the whips, but not the gentlefolk, also moved away.
War and Peace 2003
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They rode at a footpace to the barn, where a large crowd of peasants was standing.
War and Peace 2003
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Rostov reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace.
War and Peace 2003
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Nicholas sent the man to call Natasha and Petya to him, and rode at a footpace to the place where the whips were getting the hounds together.
War and Peace 2003
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Rostov rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now going.
War and Peace 2003
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Dolokhov was a long time mounting his horse which would not stand still, then he rode out of the yard at a footpace.
War and Peace 2003
qroqqa commented on the word footpace
In armour before the earthen footpace he stood;
—Charles Williams, 'Taliessin at Lancelot's Mass', in Taliessin Through Logres
each at the earthen footpace ordained to be blessed and to bless
—ib.
March 22, 2009