footcloth

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

foot +‎ cloth

Noun[edit]

footcloth (plural footcloths)

  1. (historical) A housing or caparison for a horse.
    • 1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel:
      Behind Lord Howard and the Dame,
      Fair Margaret on her palfrey came,
      Whose footcloth swept the ground.
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