foot pavement

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The main street, the rue Royale, can boast of a foot pavement, which is seldom to be met with in this country.

From A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 With Notes Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris. Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings, from Drawings Made on the Spot by Fellowes, W.D.

Policeman Ellis, C 91, saw the Marquis, with two or three other persons and a woman in his cab, driving down the Haymarket, and committing the insane freak of making the foot pavement his road. 

From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by Ashton, John

On the foot pavement sat several families whose barricades of chairs compelled the friends to step down on to the roadway.

From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

On the Quai de Bourbon, in front of his door, he looked up, full of surprise on seeing a cab waiting at the edge of the foot pavement, and barring his way.

From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

Umbrellas were being shut up, and wayfarers, who had taken shelter beneath the trees, ventured from one foot pavement to another through muddy streams which were rushing into the gutters.

From A Love Episode by Zola, Émile