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Definition of Footpace
1. n. A walking pace or step.
Definition of Footpace
1. Noun. A walking pace or step. ¹
2. Noun. A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Footpace
1. a walking pace [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footpace
Literary usage of Footpace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1865)
"MY DEAR EDITOR,—I want to call the attention of architects to the proper form of
the altar footpace. The majority of the plans that ..."
2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"... means of which the stage is lighted in a more realistic manner, avoiding the
awkward appearance of shadows east upward from below. footpace. (See Pace. ..."
3. Memoirs of Wilhelmine, Margravine of Baireuth by Wilhelmine, Helena Augusta Victoria (1888)
"We drove at a footpace, and were starved with cold. Our feet and hands were so
benumbed that we could not move them. I told the coachman to drive faster, ..."
4. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society (1849)
"The Islip roll shows how large the footpace was at Westminster, ... It is very
important also that the footpace and all the steps of the presbytery should ..."
5. The Ceremonies of the Mass by William McGarvey, Charles Philip Augustus Burnett (1905)
"If the censer-bearer occupied a position in front of the altar, he will go up
the steps directly from his place, genuflect or bow on the footpace, ..."
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