I think that disabledforeground is an option for tk widgets but not for ttk widgets. On this page
http://wiki.tcl.tk/38127
you will see things like this in parts of the code that apply to tk widgets:
{-disabledforeground disabledForeground}
Here -disabledforeground refers to a configuration option and disabledforeground (without the leading minus sign) refers to a color that is defined near the bottom of the page:
set colors(disabledForeground) {#a3a3a3} ; # -disabledfg
You will see things like this in parts of the code that apply to ttk widgets:
{map -foreground disabled disabledForeground}
Here -foreground is the configuration option, and disabled is a state that the widget can be in. Again, disabledforeground is the actual color to be used when the widget is in that state.
I'm not a Tcl programmer, so I'm extrapolating here from tkinter and ttk, but this is the only reasonable interpretation of this code that I can come up with.