Obs. [f. FOOT sb. + saunt, CENT2.] App. = cent-foot see CENT2).
The quots. for cent-foot seem to show that there was something about ‘loving’ in the language used in the game, whence prob. the allusion below.
1579. Gosson, The Schoole of Abuse (Arb.), 35. In our assemblies at playes in London, you shall see suche heauing, and shoouing … Suche playing at foote Saunt without Cardes.
