What is "footways"

Usage examples of "footways".

On the summits of these embankments were the footways, furnished with railings.

In Leicester Square the passage of a Personage between two stations blocked the traffic, and on the footways were gathered a crowd of simple folk with much in their hearts and little in their stomachs, who raised a cheer as the Personage passed.

So that I draw the breath of finer air, Station is nought, nor footways laurel-strewn, Nor rivals tightly belted for the race.

After a while he realized that it was not a single trail but one of a network of footways through the hills.