footfall
Collocations
4ADJ.
heavy
VERB + FOOTFALL
heard
FOOTFALL + NOUN
passage
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
The sound made by a footstep; also, the footstep or step itself.
[L]ike Hedg-hogs vvhich / Lye tumbling in my bare-foote vvay, and mount / Their pricks at my foot-fall: ſometime am I / All vvound vvith Adders, vvho vvith clouen tongues / Doe hiſſe me into madneſſe: […]
They are treading fast and thick. For weeks you could have heard a foot-fall.
The number of pedestrians going into or passing through a place (especially a commercial venue such as a shop) during a specified time period; also, the pedestrians in a particular place regarded collectively; foot traffic.
This stir of change and these perpetual echoes of the moving footfall, haunt the land. Men move eternally, still chasing Fortune; and, fortune found, still wander.
With high-street stores desperate to increase footfall and buck the financial downturn, retailers have started issuing discount vouchers.
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3[L]ike Hedg-hogs vvhich / Lye tumbling in my bare-foote vvay, and mount / Their pricks at my foot-fall: ſometime am I / All vvound vvith Adders, vvho vvith clouen tongues / Doe hiſſe me into madneſſe:
WiktionaryThey are treading fast and thick. For weeks you could have heard a foot-fall.
WiktionaryAt last I slid off into a light doze, and had pretty nearly made a good offing towards the land of Nod, when I heard a heavy footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer of light come into the room from
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