footpace
Americannoun
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walking pace.
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a raised portion of a floor; platform.
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a landing or resting place at the end of a short flight of steps.
noun
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a normal or walking pace
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Also called (in the Roman Catholic Church): predella. the platform immediately before an altar at the top of the altar steps
Etymology
Origin of footpace
Example Sentences
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Rostov rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now going.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
The Cossacks rode forward silently, now at a footpace, then at a trot, and these changes were the only incidents that interrupted for a moment the stillness and solemnity of their movements.
From The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy, Count
The ground rose steadily, but with an easy inclination, and we climbed with the wind at our backs; climbed, as it seemed, for an hour, or maybe two, at a footpace, keeping silence.
From Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Birdalone did as she was bidden, and the witch called unto her Atra, who came and stood humbly on the footpace beside her, and held converse with her mistress a while.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
Dolokhov was a long time mounting his horse which would not stand still, then he rode out of the yard at a footpace.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
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