footpace
nounEtymology From foot + pace.
1
A walking pace or step.
- 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.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXVII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page 185:
2
A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.
- The king has laid his crown on the ground beside him , and the covered box which represents his present stands on the footpace.1876, Edward Lewes Cutts, Traditions of Christian Art:
- Related terms
- walking pace