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noun

Crow's-foot n. (pl. crow's-feet)

pl. The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes.

(Mil.) A caltrop. (Written also crowfoot)

(Arch.) Same as Bird's-mouth. (U.S.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crow's-foot" Quotes from Famous Books

... courtesying and simpering to her own image and greeting it as the friend whom she loved better than all the world besides. She thrust her face close to the glass to see whether some long-remembered wrinkle or crow's-foot had indeed vanished; she examined whether the snow had so entirely melted from her hair that the venerable cap could be safely thrown aside. At last, turning briskly away, she came with a sort of dancing step ...

— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne