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Light-footed. World English Historical Dictionary

Light-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. 1903, rev. 2024. Light-footed a. Having a light foot; treading lightly, active, nimble.

1 c. 1490.  [see LIGHTFOOT 1, quot. c. 1440].

2 1552.  Huloet, Lyght foted, aeripes.

3 1633.  T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., II. xiv. (1810), 378. This lightfooted Generall could not bee overtaken.

4 1795.  Fate of Sedley, II. 88. The ravenous and light-footed pursuers of innocence.

5 1850.  Prescott, Peru, II. 33. The light-footed vicuña.

6 1859.  Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, vi. A good-looking woman … well-shapen, light-footed.

7   fig.  1727–46.  Thomson, Summer, 124. Of bloom ethereal the light-footed dews.

8   Hence Lightfootedly adv.

9 1887.  Athenæum, 17 Sept., 381/2. Gracious and enchanting is the picture of Florizel dancing lightfootedly among her rustic associates.

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