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Feather-footed. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Feather-footed a. a. Having feet covered with feathers. b. fig. Moving silently and swiftly.

1   a.  1580.  Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong., Coulon, or pigeon Pattu, fether-footed doues or pigeons.

2 1868.  Darwin, Anim. & Pl., I. viii. 295. There is a feather-footed breed [of canary].

3   b.  1565.  Golding, Ovid’s Met., II. 31.        He had the fetherfooted howres go harnesse in his horse. The Goddesses with might and mayne themselves therto enforce.

4 1637.  Heywood, Dial., Earth and Age, iii. Wks. 1874, VI. 137.        Swift feather-footed TIME and ravenous AGE Devour all things in their remorselesse rage.

5 1731.  A. Hill, Adv. Poets, xxiii.        Fancy’s light Dwarfs! whose feather-footed Strains, Dance, in wild Windings, through a Waste of Brains!

6 1797.  Mrs. A. M. Bennett, Beggar Girl (1813), II. 110. To follow the feather-footed Rosa as she darted along the paddock in sight of the chamber-window.

7 1839.  Bailey, Festus, xx. (1848), 231. Soft as a featherfooted cloud on Heaven.

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