footprint

Anglais

Étymologie

De foot (pied) et print.

Nom commun

footprint

footprint (pluriel : footprints)

  1. Empreinte de pied, empreinte de pas.
    • But one false statement was made by Barrymore at the inquest. He said that there were no traces upon the ground round the body. He did not observe any. But I did—some little distance off, but fresh and clear.”
      Footprints?”
      Footprints.”
      “A man’s or a woman’s?”
      Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered:—
      “Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!”
       (Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902)

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