light-legged
adjEtymology From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + legged (“having legs”, adjective).
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Nimble; swift of foot.
- Pas dared not Cosma chase , but did intend next bout with her to meet , so he with Nous to Geron turned their race, with whom to join fast ran Urania sweet. But light-legged Pas had got the middle spacea. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC: