footpace
noun 2
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2VERB + FOOTPACE
stands
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on
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noun
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.
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.
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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.
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The king has laid his crown on the ground beside him , and the covered box which represents his present stands on the footpace.
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