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light-footed, a.
Having a light foot; treading lightly, active, nimble.
c1490[see lightfoot 1, quot. c 1440]. 1552Huloet, Lyght foted, aeripes. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. ii. xiv. (1810) 378 This lightfooted Generall could not bee overtaken. 1795Fate of Sedley II. 88 The ravenous and light-footed pursuers of innocence. 1850Prescott Peru II. 33 The light-footed vicuña. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede vi, A good-looking woman..well-shapen, light-footed.
fig.1727–46Thomson Summer 124 Of bloom ethereal the light-footed dews.
Hence lightˈfootedly adv.
1887Athenæum 17 Sept. 381/2 Florizel dancing light⁓footedly among her rustic associates. |