BALL-AND-CLAW FOOT Definition & Meaning

ball-and-claw foot

[ bawl-uhn-klaw ]

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noun

Furniture.

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

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of ball-and-claw foot¹

First recorded in 1900–05

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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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