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= foot washing n. at compounds 3.
Originally (more fully Maundy ceremony): the ceremony of washing the feet of a number of poor people, performed by royal or other eminent people, or…
the action or an act of washing a person's feet, esp. (in some denominations of the Christian church) as a religious rite or practice; (also) Scottish…