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[ adjective ] without shoes

Synonyms

shoeless barefooted

Examples

"the barefoot boy" "shoeless Joe Jackson"

Used in print

(Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)

She had had a dignity about her , even barefoot and almost too tan .

(Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)

But he was looking_forward to snow - seeing for himself that each tiny crystal of the water of life was a unique individual , as he had read - walking barefoot , rolling in it .

Related terms

unshod

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[ adverb ] without shoes on

Synonyms

barefooted

Examples

"he chased her barefoot across the meadow"

Used in print

(Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)

Now Pathet_Lao propagandists were reported marching him barefoot from village to village , as evidence of evil American intervention .

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 8770
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