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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Gradually the train slackened, until it was almost at a footpace.
From A Trip to Manitoba by Mary FitzGibbon
"I think you must have taken Uncle Sidney unawares," said Alicia, when the caravan was toiling at a slow footpace along the rough wagon road paralleling the Horse Creek grade.
From Empire Builders by Jay Hambidge
The altar, where a weekly requiem had been said for them, was gone, and the footpace and piscina alone showed where it had stood.
From By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson
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
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.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
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