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ˈbare-ˌfooted, a.
[f. barefoot a. + -ed.]
a. = prec., and more frequently used by recent writers. Of a horse: having a shoeless foot.
b. quasi-adv.
a.c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 268 Chanons, preestes, and clarkes..all barefoted. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 109 Wee stoode..bare-footed and bare-headed. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. ii. 46 The Preacher was a bare⁓footed Franciscan. 1884Queen Victoria More Leaves 123 Picturesque barefooted lasses. 1906Somerville & ‘Ross’ Some Irish Yesterdays 88 ‘Ye're barefooted,’ he said. I found that I [i.e. my hunter] had indeed lost a foreshoe.
b.1780Coxe Russ. Disc. 104 The greatest part go bare⁓footed. 1847Longfellow Ev. ii. i, Thus did that poor soul wander..Bleeding, barefooted over the shards and thorns.
c. U.S. (See quots. and cf. barefoot a.)
1847Paulding Amer. Comedies 194, I thought even a Yankee knew that ‘stone fence barefooted’ is the polite English for whisky uncontaminated,—pure, sir! 1878J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xii. 183 It was sod corn [sc. whisky] barefooted.
Hence bareˈfootedness.
1756W. Toldervy Hist. 2 Orphans I. 74 Many worthy gentlemen are become egregious sufferers, both by the barefootedness of their horses and the loss of their hares. 1891Athenæum 28 Nov. 714/1 The barefootedness of the women and children. |