"hooves" is correct and usable in written English.
It is the plural form of the noun "hoof", which is the hard covering on the foot of certain animals, such as horses, cows, goats, and deer. Example: The horse whinnied as its hooves clattered against the pavement.
But the cloven hooves and porcine eyes (if not the long, marsupial tail where a curly flourish would have been more accurate) make the artist's intention clear.
He greeted your correspondent by showing off his toenails, damaged under a buffalo's hooves when he was a poor cattle-herding child, and conducted a tour of the grounds of the chief minister's plush residence.
The bullock with gold hooves, horns and halo, all preserved in formaldehyde, set a new world record for the artist at auction, fetching £9.2m ($16.7m), or £10.3m with the auction house's premiums.
Although hybrid vigour can produce good hooves, plenty of stamina and a hardy disposition, it can also lend itself to other traits, such as recalcitrance.The 1971 Wild Horse and Burro Act protects wild horses.
Dia Azzawi, a Baghdadi artist living in London, has placed white roses made of resin and representing the Iraqi academics dead or missing since 2003 around the hooves of two bronze horses, symbols of the military defeat of Iraq.
Foot-and-mouth disease, which infects animals with cloven hooves and is doing the rounds in Europe, Africa and Asia, has now been confirmed in Mongolia.
Other buyers from the region included Maria Baibakova, Vladislav Doronin, Victor Pinchuk and Gary Tatintsian.Speculation abounds about who spent £10.3m (including commission) on "The Golden Calf", a bull in formaldehyde with 18-carat gold hooves and horns.
No matter how poor they are, people try to hold on to their beasts.That would be fine if they could monetise what lies below the hooves.
Popes, church Fathers, doctrines were all obstacles to "the holy pure gospel" and Christ's redemptive grace, and they appeared in Dürer's prints under the hooves of his four apocalyptic horsemen, trampled in the mire.Already, as if those hated objects had gone, he was making his own way through the Bible in his drawings and engravings.
The sheep, horses, goats and pigs brought by Europeans, however, have hard hooves, which compress the thin soil and cause erosion.
Its feet, however, are hooves and its tail is that of a bird.
