n a city in northern Algeria at the foot of the Atlas Mountains to the southwest of Algiers
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usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks)
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The stone at the foot of a grave
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a city in northwestern Spain at the foot of the Cantabrian Mountains n
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hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece.
