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Definition of "footfall" []

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "footfall" in a sentence
  • "a painful and solitary business through "that solitary land of the individual experience, in which no fellow footfall is ever heard", as it says in the first epigraph in The Aunt's"
  • "The registered footfall, which is the number of visitors, for last year was more than 583 million, 60 percent of them women."
  • "His footfall was a feathery thing that carried him like a shadow to the door."