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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.