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Footcloth

Footcloth \Foot"cloth`\, n. Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse.
--Sir W. Scott.

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footcloth

n. (context archaic English) A housing or caparison for a horse.

Usage examples of "footcloth".

Shall dawn for thee her saffron footcloths spread, Sunset her purple canopies and red, In serried splendour, and the night unfold Her velvet darkness wrought with starry gold For kingly raiment, soft as cygnet-down.

A Tsurani was sitting beside him, mumbling under his breath as he wrapped on his footcloths and then laced up the heavy sandals.

So now these footcloths, these doormats, all four of them ours, are parted.

She dressed in her buckskins, then sat to wrap her footcloths and pull on moccasin-boots.