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

She touched up her cheeks with a hare's-foot while she talked.

From Fair Margaret A Portrait by Carpenter, Horace T.

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)

To this Mrs. White mumbled something that was inaudible, and Kate thought suddenly of her rouge-pot and hare's-foot.

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

She took the hare's-foot and came to Echo coaxingly.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie

They put also under the children the down of certain reeds that we call hare's-foot, on which they rest very softly.

From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)