hare's-foot

British  

noun

1. Also called: hare's-foot clover.  a leguminous annual plant, Trifolium arvense, that grows on sandy soils in Europe and NW Asia and has downy heads of white or pink flowers

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Example Sentences

He touched his cheeks with the hare's-foot and gave them a richer bloom.

From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton

She had taken up the hare's-foot and was lightly manipulating it.

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile

The hare’s-foot fern—Davallia canariensis—with its beautiful blue-green fronds, much divided and elegantly arched, makes the loveliest room plant imaginable, and, though fairly common, is not often seen in a good state of health.

From Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them by Biddle, Violet Purton

Thus he incidentally with great success laid the poor hare's-foot on the rack of the "larded hare," when he contended ironically–for nepotism.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul

The prince, however, was listening complaisantly to the Marquis de Chouard, who had taken up a hare's-foot on the dressing table and had begun explaining the way grease paint is put on.

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile