Definition of Footrules

1. footrule [n] - See also: footrule

Lexicographical Neighbors of Footrules

footprint
footprint evidence
footprinting
footprints
footra
footrace
footraces
footras
footrest
footrests
footrope
footropes
footrot
footrots
footrule
footrules (current term)
foots
footshock
footsie
footsies
footslog
footslogged
footslogger
footsloggers
footslogging
footslogs
footsoldier
footsoldiers
footsore
footsoreness

Literary usage of Footrules

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding (1920)
"Being a factor of the Romantic movement, that mighty rebellion against the tyranny of a world of footrules and ledgers, he lived in a world where two and ..."

2. Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Musical Subjects by John F. Runciman (1899)
"Being a factor of the Romantic movement, that mighty rebellion against the tyranny of a world of footrules and ledgers, he lived and worked in a world where ..."

3. Three Plays by William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1892)
"To think of chairs, and tables, and footrules, all dead and wooden—and cold pieces of money with the King's ugly head on them ; and here is your ..."

4. A Realistic Universe: An Introd. to Metaphysics by John Elof Boodin (1916)
"The map of England, with its dots and colors, the astronomer's squares and circles, the physicist's measures of footrules and yardsticks, are convenient ..."

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