Meanings
- not comparableWearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
There were no roads, only paths through the grass worn away by barefooted boys and women.
1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 91 more example
By following the sound I came upon a bare-footed old woman with a yellow dried-up countenance, who was bending down over the pigs' trough, busy filling it with food, for which the noisy little creatures were fighting, tearing, pushing, and yelling, with expectation and delight.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H. L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 278Synonyms: barefoot, bare-footen, discalceate, discalced, shoeless, unshod, unshoed
- not comparableWearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveWearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbwithout shoes on
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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