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[ adverb ] with the legs crossed

Examples

"he sat on the floor cross-legged and meditated"

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

I have more_than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap , unfolded , and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals .

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