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Definition of Footcloths
1. footcloth [n] - See also: footcloth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footcloths
Literary usage of Footcloths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memorials of the English Affairs from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles by Bulstrode Whitlocke (1853)
"After this chariot followed six more of the musicians on horseback, with footcloths
habited and attended with torches, as the former were. ..."
2. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1846)
"... sheets, footcloths for the King's feet, candles for the workmen employed in
making these garments, one hundred and ten urinals bought at different times ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... amongst all those huffing cardinals, swelling bishops that flourished in his
time, and rode on footcloths. It is not honesty, learning, worth, wisdom, ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Fear not—such footcloths and all gauds apart, Loud from the trump of Fame my name
is blown ; Best gift of heaven it is, in glory's hour, To think thereon ..."
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