ruffe-footed

Updated: June 16, 2025

When they brought him a Spanish hat, he flung it away with scorn, swearing he never loved them nor their fashions; and when they put roses on his shoes, he swore too, "that they should not make him a ruffe-footed dove; a yard of penny ribbon would serve that turn."

Isaac Disraeli - Literary Character of Men of Genius: Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions