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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hare's-foot

He showed the hare's-foot with which he brushed the particles of gold from the table and the skin spread on his knees to receive them.

From L'Assommoir by Zola, Émile

There were chairs and table and a couch, a small stand for a pile of magazines, a bookcase containing some medical works, and a sprawling hare’s-foot fern in a large flowerpot by the window.

From The Moon Rock by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)

A thin coating of cold cream was passed over the face and neck; then the powder-puff changed what was yellow into white, and the hare's-foot gave a bloom to the cheeks.

From A Mummer's Wife by Moore, George (George Augustus)

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

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

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile