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wing-footed en · ADJ

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1. Having wings on the feet; very fast.
   • And his wingfooted coursers him did beare / So fast away that, ere his readie speare / He could advance, he farre was gone and past […]. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • In due time she gave birth to Autolycus, / A son of Mercury, wing-footed, as if born / With all his father's cleverness and speed, / He made white look like black and black like white. 1958, Ovid, translated by Horace Gregory, The Metamorphoses, New York: Viking, Book XI, p. 307:
   • He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling, unforeseen, wing-footed wanderer. 1918, W. B. Yeats, “Per Amica Silentia Lunae”, in Mythologies, New York: Macmillan, published 1959, page 332:

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