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• sure-footed

Adjective

surefooted ‎(comparative more surefooted, superlative most surefooted)

1. walking steadily, moving freely, capable of finding good footing
   • 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, Letter XX,

     The mules of Piedmont are exceeding strong and hardy. […] They are the only carriage that can be used in crossing the mountains, being very sure-footed: and it is observed that in choosing their steps, they always march upon the brink of the precipice.

   • 1997, Emma Donoghue, "The Tale of the Needle" in Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins, New York: HarperCollins, p. 169,

     For many years I didn't learn to walk, because I was carried everywhere—not by my parents, who had grown frail, but by the most sure-footed of the servants.

2. confident

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