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