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• foot-pace

Noun

footpace ‎(plural footpaces)

1. A walking pace or step.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 37

     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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shipley to this entry?)

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