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footfall

footfall (plural footfalls)

1. (countable) The sound made by a footstep.
   • 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 2, sc. 2,

     . . . like hedgehogs which

     Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount

     Their pricks at my footfall.

   • 1916, Rabindranath Tagore, ""The Hungry Stones,"" in The Hungry Stones And Other Stories,

     I heard many footfalls, as if a large number of persons were rushing down the steps.

   • 1936, T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton:

     What might have been and what has been
     Point to one end, which is always present.
     Footfalls echo in the memory
     Down the passage which we did not take
     Towards the door we never opened
     Into the rose-garden.

2. (chiefly UK, uncountable) Foot (pedestrian) traffic.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters, ch. 1,

     This stir of change and these perpetual echoes of the moving footfall, haunt the land. Men move eternally, still chasing Fortune.

   • 2008, ""Bargains galore in battle of the high street,"" The Scotsman, 9 Dec. (retrieved 11 Dec. 2008),

     With high-street stores desperate to increase footfall and buck the financial downturn, retailers have started issuing discount vouchers.

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