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单词 silver-footed
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silver-footedadj.

Etymology: < silver n. and adj. Compounds 1b, after the Homeric ἀργυρόπεζα as an epithet of Thetis.
poetic.
Having silvery feet; white-footed. Often figurative.
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1620 T. Middleton & W. Rowley World Tost sig. B2v By her side, The siluer-footed Thamesis doth slide.
a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 94 Yet Silver-footed Peace may blesse our feilds.
1685 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Speech to Vulcan in Sylvæ sig. Ev By silver footed Thetis thou wert won For fierce Achilles.
1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xvi. 702 Who chas'd for Murder thence, a Suppliant came To Peleus, and the silver-footed Dame.
1747 D. Mallet Amyntor & Theodora 10 The silver-footed dews.
1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 107 The ministring stars..Waiting for silver-footed messages.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. i. 30 The silver-footed Thetis has contrived To o'erpersuade thee.
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