footcloths

Gorgeous footcloths, rich and cunningly fashioned, hung down from the saddles of the beautiful women.

The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour

Shall dawn for thee her saffron footcloths spread,

The Golden Threshold 1916

He thought of a warm chamber, warm bath, warm footcloths, warm pheasant, and warm wine.

Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847

Under this I saw a jolly company of mules in stately trappings, with velvet footcloths, and a troop of ambling nags, some for men and some for women; besides I don't know how many litters all lined with velvet, and some coaches of Ferrara make; all this for those who had a mind to take the air.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

Shoes and footcloths were found for Sarah and Joana, but the only dresses were heavy and black, not garments suitable for traveling miles across rough country, and Sarah persuaded the women to give up some boys" breeches, shirts and jackets instead.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

Under this I saw a jolly company of mules in stately trappings, with velvet footcloths, and a troop of ambling nags, some for men and some for women; besides I don’t know how many litters all lined with velvet, and some coaches of Ferrara make; all this for those who had a mind to take the air.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Under this I saw a jolly company of mules in stately trappings, with velvet footcloths, and a troop of ambling nags, some for men and some for women; besides I don’t know how many litters all lined with velvet, and some coaches of Ferrara make; all this for those who had a mind to take the air.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Vivar was sitting close to a water-butt just inside the fort’s inner gateway, where he was smearing footcloths with the pork fat that was issued to every soldier as a specific against blisters.

Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988

- Diary, vol.ii. p. 168.] with very rich footcloths, and four men in very rich liveries; and this year we furnished our house and paid all our debts which we had contracted during the war.

Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid. Anne Harrison Fanshawe 1652