Meanings
nounfootholder (plural footholders)
plural footholders
- human sciencesIn Welsh mythology, a virgin maiden tasked with holding a warrior's feet in her lap.
After the rape of his “footholder,” the king tries to find another maiden who could be used for this purpose.
Antón Bousquet, The World of the Gauls: Foundation(s) of a Celtic Philosophy (page 253)1 more example
One particularly difficult figure is the king's footholder, the problems with which have already been clearly delineated by McKenna.
2018, Robin Chapman Stacey, Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales, page 146
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