featly

[ feet-lee ]

/ ˈfit li /

Archaic.

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adverb

suitably; appropriately.

skillfully; nimbly.

neatly; elegantly.

adjective

graceful; elegant.

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Origin of featly

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English fetly; see origin at feat², -ly (def. 3)

OTHER WORDS FROM featly

feat·li·ness, noun

Words nearby featly

feather-tail glider, feather tract, feather-veined, featherweight, feathery, featly, feature, featured, feature-length, featureless, feature story

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How to use featly in a sentence

These maidens begin to dance on the green grass, and so featly do they step that they scarce seem to touch the ground.
The Science of Fairy Tales|Edwin Sidney Hartland
Aucassin was the name of the damoiseau: fair was he, goodly, and great, and featly fashioned of his body and limbs.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)--Continental Europe I|Various
Think you that our muckle clumsy bodies could run and hide as featly?
Lochinvar|S. R. Crockett
Then foot it featly; that you may say hereafter you remember when your mother was first married, and danced at her wedding.
Dryden's Works (8 of 18): Amphitryon; King Arthur; Cleomenes; Love Triumphant|John Dryden

The lane was a place of enchantment—a long, moonlit colonnade adown which beguiling wood nymphs might have footed it featly.
Chronicles of Avonlea|Lucy Maud Montgomery

British Dictionary definitions for featly

featly

/ (ˈfiːtlɪ) /

adverb archaic

neatly

fitly

Derived forms of featly

featliness, noun

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