cloven-footed
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English clovefote, from cloven + foot + -ed.
Adjective[edit]
cloven-footed (not comparable)
- Having the foot divided into parts; cloven-hoofed; fissiped.
- Synonym: cleft-footed
- 1966, Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, translator not credited, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, p. 99,
- The Buffalo clan may not skin any cloven-footed animal nor look at these animals while they are dying.
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References[edit]
- “cloven-footed”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.