footfall

IPA: fˈʊtfɔɫ

(countable) The sound made by a footstep; also, the footstep or step itself.
(uncountable, originally and chiefly Britain) The number of pedestrians going into or passing through a place (especially a commercial venue such as a shop) during a specified time period; also, the pedestrians in a particular place regarded collectively; foot traffic.

Examples of "footfall" in Sentences

Her footfall is the lightest, her laugh the merriest in the house.
His footfall was a feathery thing that carried him like a shadow to the door.
The registered footfall, which is the number of visitors, for last year was more than 583 million, 60 percent of them women.
The footfall is a light one, but distinct enough for them to tell, that whoever makes it is continuing on towards them, though yet unseen.
Down the gradual slope the scout hastened; his footfall was the only sound that broke the stillness after the answers to his call had ceased.
footfall, which is a means so steady and in small sections wanders through the mind unnoticed, because it beats constantly, sweeping together the loose tacks of sound
a painful and solitary business through "that solitary land of the individual experience, in which no fellow footfall is ever heard", as it says in the first epigraph in The Aunt's