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"These are primroses," she would say. "Did you not know? And these are ladies'-feet, and these forget-me-nots.
—Max Beerbohm, The Happy Hypocrite, 1897
Well primroses and forget-me-nots I know, but I can't find ladies'-foot, lady's-foot, what have you, in the OED. Just below she says that one trailing down so prettily is Astyanax, which sober truth appears to reveal as a genus of fish. Max appears to be pulling the many-belled leg.
December 31, 2008