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Barelegged

Barelegged \Bare"legged`\, bare-legged \bare-legged\, a. Having the legs bare. bare-legged children on the beach

Wiktionary
barelegged

a. Having uncovered legs. adv. With uncovered legs.

WordNet
barelegged

adj. having the legs uncovered by clothing; "barelegged children on the beach"

Usage examples of "barelegged".

Both Frank and Joe noticed that although she was barelegged, Potato Annie was wearing shoes.

The man was bare-armed, the sleeves having been torn from his tattered shirt, and barelegged.

Best to go barelegged, he reckoned, so the boots did not get stuck in the river mud.

Much of it, he supposed, was the town's sewage and he was glad he was not wading barelegged through the muck.

Not only did he not wear pants, and was barefooted and barelegged, but about his middle, just like any black, he wore a brilliant-coloured loincloth, that, like a kilt, fell nearly to his sunburnt knees.

There were a vast host of Highlanders, lean as whiter wolves, unshod and barelegged in the cold mud, dirty, disheveled, usually bearded and armed only with dirks, cowhide targets, and a miscellany of archaic polearms.

Farrell sat in a tree and watched the enemy knights climbing into half a dozen rowboats and being pushed off toward the island by their barelegged squires.

Three or four women, and as many barelegged girls, have come out to look at the proces-sion, and we lounge towards the group.