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单词 footpad
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footpad

/ˈfʊtpad /
noun historical
A highwayman operating on foot rather than riding a horse.Discharged soldiers often took to brigandage: in 1718 one formed a company of footpads which raided the roads between Paris and Caen....
  • I was suddenly transported back to a Dickensian world of Fagin and footpads.
  • High tobymen, or horsed robbers, had yielded the field to low tobymen, or footpads, and roadside thieving had lost its traditional panache.
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