Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Black-foot

There is a powerful and numerous tribe of North American Indians called Black-feet. A black-foot is an intermediary in love affairs; but if perfidious to the wooer he was called a white-foot.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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