Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nimble; light-footed.
- noun Venison.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a light, springy step; moving lightly and nimbly; nimble in running or dancing; active. Opposite of
heavy-footed .
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Examples
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Where oh where, he wondered, are my light-foot lads?
Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007
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It went with Birdalone as Habundia had foretold, for she came home to the house glad of semblance, flushed and light-foot, so that she was lovely and graceful beyond her wont.
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Thus far she still walked slim and light-foot, her condition betrayed by no more than a fullness gathering in the breasts.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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That was her philosophy as she went, light-foot, through the blue-ground heaps.
Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley
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THERE came a little light-foot breeze a-dancing down the bay,
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Went the light-foot Mysian maids, calling Hylas home.
The Drift of Pinions Marjorie Lowry Christie 1913
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Some light-foot friend post to the Duke of Norfolk:
Act IV. Scene IV. The Tragedy of King Richard the Third 1914
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After this simple introduction from the greater personage, his light-foot, volatile, graceful minister takes Alberich in hand and practising confidently upon his intoxicated conceit of power, his pride in the cleverness which had contrived ring and wishing-cap, uses him like a puppet of which all the strings should be in his hand.
The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912
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So she went home light-foot with her sorrows beginning to fade and her heart beating happy again.
The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911
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A door even was pointed at, smiled and winked at, passed by light-foot as they went along the gallery.
The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892
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