[Named after Lundy Foot, a Dublin tobacconist, whose address is given as 8 Essex Bridge in Wilson’s Dublin Directory, 1776.] A kind of snuff.
1809. Aurora General Advt., 4 July, 1/5. That much used, and highly esteemed SNUFF by the nobility and gentry of England and Ireland, known by the name of LUNDY FOOT.
1811. Ora & Juliet, IV. 187. The sportive zephyrs carried the high-dried Lundyfoot into the eyes of the whole party.
1822. Blackw. Mag., XI. 370*. He took so much of Lundy-Foot, That he used to snort and snuffle.
1866. Daily Tel., 11 Jan., 5/1. A pinch of Lundyfoot or brown Rappee.
