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单词 footing place
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footing place
footing place n. Obsolete a foothold; a secure position, esp. one from which further progress may be made.
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a1568 R. Ascham Rep. & Disc. Affaires Germany (?1570) f. 14v The Duke of Saxonie receiued such kindnes, as no Prince in Germany for all respectes in yt case was able to affourde hym: as first he had his whole countrey of Bauiere for a sure footyng place.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xii. 575/1 The possession of the City of Vannes..the Englishmen still kept, that..they might haue some hold and certaine footing-place.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 72 Some cloven Stakes, and (wond'rous to behold,) Their sharpen'd ends in Earth their footing place, And the dry Poles produce a living Race. View more context for this quotation
1777 W. Young Spirit of Athens ii. x. 261 Philip..doubted not with his footing place in the Chersonese, of soon mastering too the rest of that peninsula.
?a1828 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. Tour Continent in Jrnls. (1941) II. 288 A gulph..towards the edge of which our footing-place..sloped directly.
1891 O. Wilde Decay of Lying (rev. ed.) in Intentions 26 Facts are not merely finding a footing-place in history, but they are usurping the domain of Fancy.
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