adjective
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Also: footweary. footsore
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worn away by the feet
a footworn staircase
Etymology
Origin of footworn
Example Sentences
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Like a footworn traveler drawing near the homeland, he was keenly anticipating his return to the spirit world.
From An Easter Disciple The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight by Sanford, Arthur Benton
The corkscrew stairway, broken and footworn though it is, seems infinitely less perilous.
From Cheerful—By Request by Ferber, Edna
Why should we exchange the glories of the land we live in for the footworn and sight-worn, the thumbed and fingered beauties of other lands?
From Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Eddy, Arthur Jerome
The soft fitful illumination was reflected in the polished surface of the table and even in the footworn old floor; and the morning noises had begun again.
From Widdershins by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
On its crest, you can still see its prayer shrines, and the footworn path where refugees from war ran down to the river for water from encampment on the crest.
From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
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