The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barelegged \Bare"legged`\, bare-legged \bare-legged\, a. Having the legs bare. bare-legged children on the beach
Usage examples of "bare-legged".
The sight of any brown bare-legged lad gipsying down the hill with a song upon his lips, would set her viciously kicking the toes of her satin slippers against the parapet of the terrace, and clamouring at her sex.
And Adam, doing day-labour on his father's behalf, brown and ruddy and bare-legged, laughing and whistling as he swung his sickle.
But perhaps we were so far away that they thought they were hallucinating--I've done so myself--their minds tricking them into seeing--say, two motorists working under the hood--as a woman bending over, bare-legged, full fanny in white panties slowly gyrating as a male companion straps it.
But he had no right to that feeling, so the feeling quickly modulated, as a nettle-sting modulates to warmth (the bare-legged legionaries had kept themselves warm in British winters by lashing themselves with nettles: might there not be a poem there?
Several Highlanders joined the party as they marched on, and some old men, bare-legged women, young girls, and children, followed at a distance.
As they passed the settlements of thatched beehive-shaped huts, the little naked herd boys scampered to alert the kraals, and then the women came out, bare-legged and naked-breasted, balancing the clay pots and hollowed gourds upon their heads, an exercise that gave them a stately dignity of movement.
From behind him came the ripple of a happy woman's laughter, and two young urchins darted forth from the hut, bare-legged and towsy, while the mother, stepping out, laid her hand upon her husband's arm and watched the gambols of the children.