footpace

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The sanctuary is paved with coloured tesserae and marbles, in a series of five steps, the uppermost of which forms the predella, or footpace, to the altar.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less by Worley, George

The altar, where a weekly requiem had been said for them, was gone, and the footpace and piscina alone showed where it had stood.

From By What Authority? by Benson, Robert Hugh

Rostov reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He had clothed himself in mean apparel, and rode at a footpace straight to the city, where dwelt the daughter of the King.

From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de

They proceeded in single file and at a footpace, for the highway had been honeycombed and rendered unsafe; it also ascended steadily.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel