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  • adjective poetic Light-footed.

Etymologies

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From light +‎ foot.

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Examples

  • The colorful Sally lightfoot crab Graspus graspus is a distinctive shoreline species.

    Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009

  • Its embarrassing to America to have lightfoot Franken in office as well as to have a arrogant elitist as president who really hasn't a clue as the past months have shown .......

    Franken handles Senate debut with a light touch 2009

  • Then she walked lightfoot away, lifting her tail from her spotted flanks, while the young ones nimbly trotted.

    The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003

  • Such then was its nature (_Lepus, levipes_, lightfoot, some think).

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Even the visits of golden nymphs, sweet ambassadors of commerce, who rustle in and out of my room with memoranda, mail, manuscripts, aye, even these lightfoot figures fail to charm.

    Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

  • And eke, ye lightfoot mayds, which keepe the deere,

    Epithalamion 1919

  • They barred the heavy door 'gainst lightfoot fear;

    The Listeners and Other Poems Walter De la Mare 1914

  • And eke, ye lightfoot mayds, which keep the deere,

    Epithalamion 1909

  • He came as of old habit; he had come when the lightfoot herds ranged from here to the sweet, mist-watered canons of the Coast Range, and the bucks went up to the windy mesas what time the young ran with their mothers, nose to flank.

    The Last Antelope 1903

  • With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a roselipt maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

    Collected Essays 1900

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