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Footstall. World English Historical Dictionary

Footstall. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Footstall [f. FOOT sb. + STALL sb.]

1   1.  The base or pedestal of a pillar, statue, etc.

2 1585.  Higgins, trans. Junius’ Nomenclator, 203/2. Stylobata.… The foote stal of a piller, or that which beareth vp a piller, and whereon it standeth on ende.

3 1626.  Ainsworth, Annot. Pentat., Lev. i. 15. The Priest went up on the footstall (of the Altar) and turned in compasse.

4 1635.  J. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Banish’d Virg., 19. Sleeping with his face upwards, a goodly and well-featured young Knight, by sight under seventeene yeares of age, his shield painted over with a violet-browne, besprinkled with teares rested on the footestall of the statue.

5 1886.  Willis & Clark, Cambridge, II. 140. The bases and footstalls shewed that the whole of the piers stood on this lower level when first erected, as far, at least, as the eastern responds.

6   2.  ‘A woman’s stirrup’ (J.).

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