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

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

The Cossacks rode forward silently, now at a footpace, then at a trot, and these changes were the only incidents that interrupted for a moment the stillness and solemnity of their movements.

From The Cossacks by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I made no answer—what answer had I to make?—and we rode at a footpace down the street; he and I leading, Clon and the shock-headed man bringing up the rear.

From Under the Red Robe by Weyman, Stanley John