light-footed, a.
Having a light foot; treading lightly, active, nimble.
| c 1490 [see lightfoot 1, quot. c 1440]. 1552 Huloet, Lyght foted, aeripes. 1633 T. Stafford Pac. Hib. ii. xiv. (1810) 378 This lightfooted Generall could not bee overtaken. 1795 Fate of Sedley II. 88 The ravenous and light-footed pursuers of innocence. 1850 Prescott Peru II. 33 The light-footed vicuña. 1859 Geo. Eliot A. Bede vi, A good-looking woman..well-shapen, light-footed. |
| fig. 1727–46 Thomson Summer 124 Of bloom ethereal the light-footed dews. |
Hence
lightˈfootedly adv.| 1887 Athenæum 17 Sept. 381/2 Florizel dancing light⁓footedly among her rustic associates. |