footcloth
Americannoun
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a carpet or rug.
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a richly ornamented caparison for a horse, hanging to the ground.
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The Earl of Northumberland hath a blue coat, broidered with gold, and a footcloth of the same.
From Mistress Margery by Holt, Emily Sarah
With an adroit presence of mind, the courtier pulled off his rich plush cloak and threw it on the ground to serve her for a footcloth.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy
And what a world of great men and great things, “high actions and high passions,” is this that he has spread under her for a footcloth or hung behind her for a curtain!
From A Study of Shakespeare by Gosse, Edmund
It was surmounted by a canopy, which, as well as the cushions, side-curtains, and the very footcloth, was composed of crimson velvet, embroidered with seed-pearl.
From Kenilworth by Scott, Walter, Sir
Then on the ground, while trumpets sound their loudest points of war, Fling the red shreds, a footcloth meet for Henry of Navarre.
From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Burt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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