tripsome

adj

1. (archaic)Characterised or marked by tripping (light stepping); light-footed; nimble

   “Not prurient Mars, / Pointing his toe through ten celestial bars — / Not young Apollo, beamily array'd / In tripsome guise for Juno's masquerade — / Not smartest Hermes, with his pinion girth, [...]”

   “[...] she had never seen the triumph of a winner expand beyond the buckram simper of General Lorriston on dropping two halfcrowns into his spangled card-purse; or the tripsome sprightliness of Lady Lavinia Lisle's parting curtsey, [...]”

   “He hears the flageolet of Collinet, — he savours the garnished chickens of Gunter, — he beholds the tripsome feet of Lady Wilhelmine or Lady Clementina flit by him; [...]”