Bayard of ten toes

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#1·10h ago

(obsolete, slang) The feet, as a means of travelling.

'''circa 1616' : Nicholas Breton, An Honest Poor Man ; reprinted (with modernised spelling) in Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, Bart. M.P., Archaica : Containing a Reprint of Scarce Old English Prose Tracts, with Prefaces, Critical and Biogra…

Origin: From the fact that humans, unlike horses, have ten toes. (Bayard was a horse famous in old romances.). Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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