a. Having a light foot; treading lightly, active, nimble.

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

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1552.  Huloet, Lyght foted, aeripes.

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

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

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

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

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

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  Hence Lightfootedly adv.

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

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