hoofmark

plural hoofmarks · alternative hoof-mark

1. The imprint made by a hoof; a hoofprint.

   Little half moons clustered underneath her cheekbones, like faint hoofmarks.

   1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage, published 2004, page 130

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   […] he looked for tracks / On the ridge where he had seen the riders cantering, / And not a bush was broken, not a hoof-mark / Scarred the sear grass.

   1924, Robinson Jeffers, “Tamar”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Random House, published 1937, page 38