coltish

One of the youngsters was a coltish winger from Carmagnola, a pretty market town just south of Turin.

Velia pushed Pita toward me and got up to stretch her long, coltish legs.

Sugarplum dances a solo filled with pinprick steps and coltish jumps, both of which come naturally to Hyltin, who loves to move quickly, and whose dancing combines lightness and delicacy in the footwork with wafting arms and a playful, teasing use of the shoulders.

The requirements of intimacy acting aside, she brings coltish physicality and expressive flush to all her scenes — whether lonely or laughing, aggravated or emboldened.

A pariah born with severe deformities, including an arm that’s longer than his coltish legs — when he runs, it trails him as perilously as Isadora Duncan’s scarf — Inu-oh hides his face under a gourd mask.