footpace

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noun

A walking pace or step.

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Meanings

nounfootpace (plural footpaces)

plural footpaces · alternative foot pace · alternative foot-pace

  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

Origin

From foot + pace.

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Translations

Russian шаг
  • шаг (šag)a walking pace or step
Cite this entry
APA

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MLA

“footpace.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/footpace. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “footpace,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/footpace.

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