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ball-and-claw foot

American  
[bawl-uhn-klaw] / ˈbɔl ənˈklɔ /

noun

Furniture.

  1. a foot having the form of a bird's claw grasping a ball.

Etymology

Origin of ball-and-claw foot

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

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His first chairs showed Dutch influence, and for these he used the cabriole leg, greatly improving its curving, with the Dutch or ball-and-claw foot, the latter more frequently than the former.

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