footpace

footpace

English

Alternative forms

• foot-pace

Etymology

foot +‎ pace

Noun

footpace (plural footpaces)

1. A walking pace or step.
   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 37”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], OCLC 365836:

     We went at a foot-pace, but on the way back we trotted, and there was something to my mind singularly horrible in the way the driver of the hearse whipped up his horses.

2. A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.
   • 1876, Edward Lewes Cutts, Traditions of Christian Art:

     The king has laid his crown on the ground beside him , and the covered box which represents his present stands on the footpace.

Related terms

• walking pace

Translations

a walking pace or step

Russian: шаг (ru) m (šag)

References

• footpace in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913