pad foot

noun

1. Furniture. any of various kinds of feet to a cabriole leg, as club, slipper, trifid, or web, having the form of a flattened extension of its lines.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pad foot¹

First recorded in 1730–40

Example Sentences

From these forms was gradually developed the Chippendale chair, with its elaborately interlaced back, its graceful arms and square or cabriole legs, the latter terminating in the claw and ball or the pad foot.

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