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light-heeled, a.
1. Having light heels; brisk in walking or running; nimble.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 415 The villaine is much lighter heel'd then I. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 29 Light-heel'd beagles that lead the chase. 1742Blair Grave 24 Light-heel'd ghosts and visionary shades. 1811Sporting Mag. XXXVIII. 99 Prizes had been distributed to the most light-heeled damsels of either county, for their speed in running. 1829H. Hawthorn Visit Babylon 18, I followed the light-heeled girl.
†2. Of a woman: Loose, unchaste. Obs.
a1613Overbury Charac., Foote-man Wks. (1856) 14 His mother..was a light-heeled wench. 1637Nabbes Microcosm. ii. C 2 b, My mother a light-heel'd madame that kept a vaulting-schoole at the signe of Virgo. 1638― Bride iv. ii. (1640) G 1 b, She is sure a light heeld wench. 1796M. Robinson Angelina II. 26 Has not Mr. Amathist espoused the venerable remains of a light-heeled Calypso?
So † light-heels, a loose woman.
1602J. Cooke How to choose a Good Wife iii. ii, I'll tell my mistress as soon as I come home that mistress light-heels comes to dinner to-morrow. |