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ˈfoot-cloth
†1. A large richly-ornamented cloth laid over the back of a horse and hanging down to the ground on each side. It was considered as a mark of dignity and state. Obs.
1480Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 154 An herneys in russet velvet cloth of gold for an hakeney, and a footeclothe maade of russet velvet lyned with blac bokeram. 1589Mar Martine 6 Plucke but the foote cloth from his backe, The Asse will soone be seene. 1612W. Parkes Curtaine-Dr. (1876) 24 Sometimes he that robbes both Church and Common-wealth is seene to ride on his foot-cloth. 1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3842/1 The Town-Clerk with a Gold Chain, and his Footman and Footcloth. 1805Scott Last Minstr. v. xvii, Fair Margaret on her palfrey came, Whose footcloth swept the ground.
fig.1594Nashe Vnfort. Trav. Wks. (Grosart) V. 70 The scolasticall squitter bookes clout you vp cannopies & foot⁓clothes of verses.
2. A cloth to set the feet upon, a carpet.
1639Fuller Holy War iv. i. (1640) 165 Milain, and many other cities in Italy..danced at this musick, made a foot⁓cloth of their Master's livery. 1726–7Swift Gulliver i. ii. 38 A foot-cloth for your majesty's chief room of state. 1824Macaulay Ivry vi, Then on the ground..Fling the red shreds, a footcloth meet for Henry of Navarre. 1847Tennyson Princ. iv. 267 On the..footcloth, lay The..child.
†3. attrib. and Comb. (sense 1), as foot-cloth horse, foot-cloth mule, foot-cloth nag, foot-cloth-page, foot-cloth-servant, foot-cloth-strider.
1571Sadler et al. Let. 7 Sept. in Murdin Coll. State Pap. (1759) 149 So havyng prepared a Fotecloth Nag for him..he was..quietly brought into the tower. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. i. 54 Hast thou not..Bare⁓headed plodded by my foot-cloth Mule. 1594― Rich. III, iii. iv. 86 Three times to day my Foot-Cloth-Horse did stumble. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes i. vii. 26 The Mule, and glorious Foot-cloath-pages, and Harbingers, are all too little for these Patriarchs. a1658Ford, etc. Witch Edmonton v. i, I'll..Serve some Briarean footcloth-strider. |