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soft-footed, a.
[soft a. 31.]
Having feet which tread softly. In early use fig.
1612Chapman Rev. Bussy d'Ambois v. iii, The black soft-footed hour is now on wing. 1656Cowley Pindar. Odes, 2nd Olympique viii, Soft-footed Winds..Dance through the perfum'd Air. 1736Ainsworth i. s.v., Soft footed, mollipes. 1894Outing XXIII. 346/2 The soft-footed maid had just left them. 1947Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 47 In the soft⁓footed Hours of darkness.
Hence soft-footedly adv.
1834Lytton Pilgr. Rhine xi. (1840) 139 He [the fox] walked very soft-footedly. |