"footpadding" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1847, George Payne Rainsford James, The King's Highway: A Novel, page 178:",
          "text": "This footpadding is only done just for a bit of amusement, and because the colonel is out of the way.",
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        {
          "ref": "1907, San Francisco Daily Times - Volume 16, page 7:",
          "text": "The supervisors have been turned out of office, but now that they are not preoccupied with graft they may turn their attention to footpadding or second-story work.",
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        {
          "ref": "1983, Ray Harrison, French Ordinary Murder, page 118:",
          "text": "It could just as easily have been a casual footpadding.",
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