ˈfeather-ˈfooted, a.
a. Having feet covered with feathers. b. fig. Moving silently and swiftly.
a. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Coulon, or pigeon Pattu, fether-footed doues or pigeons. 1868 Darwin Anim. & Pl. I. viii. 295 There is a feather-footed breed. |
b. 1565 Golding Ovid's Met. ii. 31 He bad the fether⁓footed houres go harnesse in his horse. 1637 Heywood Dial. iii. Wks. 1874 VI. 137 Swift feather-footed Time. 1731 A. Hill Adv. Poets xxiii, Fancy's light Dwarfs! whose feather-footed Strains, Dance..through a Waste of Brains! 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) II. 110 The feather-footed Rosa..darted along the paddock. 1839 Bailey Festus xx. (1848) 231 Soft as a featherfooted cloud on Heaven. |