at the foot of

n a city in northern Algeria at the foot of the Atlas Mountains to the southwest of Algiers

usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks)

The stone at the foot of a grave

a city in northwestern Spain at the foot of the Cantabrian Mountains n

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.