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pede|piːd|
[f. L. pēs, ped-em foot: cf. It. piede.]
A foot or base. Only attrib. as in pede-cloth, an altar-carpet; pede-window, a term formerly applied to the west window of a cruciform church (being at the foot of the cross).
1842Ecclesiologist I. 209 Two specimens of a pede cloth or Altar carpet. 1846Ibid. V. 187 It struck us that lychnoscopes help to explain, and were themselves explained by, pede-windows. 1870Rock Text. Fabr. i. 66 A carpet..for covering the top of the higher step at the altar, called by some a pede-cloth. |