footpace

as in altar
a raised platform (as beneath an altar) … [He] deposited his basket by the font, went up the nave …; then he knelt upon the footpace.Thomas Hardy

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Noun
  • Some of the more personal things discovered has come with their restoration work on the grottos, which are manmade cave-like structures made to house altars.
    Anna Ortiz, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2025
  • In April, archaeologists uncovered a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar containing human remains in the nearby ancient city of Tikal, approximately 23 kilometers (14 miles) south of Uaxactún.
    Alysha Bibi, CNN Money, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • Pastor Lorenzo Jones stood in a tub of water in his white pulpit gown.
    Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
  • Their cross-racial sisterhood expanded the civil rights imagination beyond male pulpits and courtrooms.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 24 May 2025
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“Footpace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footpace. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.

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