cloven-footed
English
Alternative forms
- clovenfooted
Etymology
From Middle English clovefote, from cloven + foot + -ed.
Adjective
cloven-footed (not comparable)
- Having the foot divided into parts; cloven-hoofed; fissiped.
- 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.
- 1966, Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, translator not credited, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, p. 99,
See also
- whole-footed
References
- cloven-footed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911