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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barefoot \Bare"foot\ (b[^a]r"f[oo^]t), a. & adv. With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 wear nothing on the feet. 2 (context colloquial of a vehicle on an icy road English) not using snow chains. adv. wear nothing on the feet.
WordNet
adv. without shoes on; "he chased her barefoot across the meadow" [syn: barefooted]
adj. without shoes; "the barefoot boy"; "shoeless Joe Jackson" [syn: barefooted, shoeless]
Wikipedia
Barefoot is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Chad Barefoot (born 1983), American politician from North Carolina
- Darren Barefoot (born 1974), Canadian blogger and information technology executive
- Herbert Barefoot (1887–1958), English military officer and architect
- Ken Barefoot (born 1945), American football tight end
- Magnus Barefoot (1073–1103), King of Norway
- Robert Barefoot (born 1944), Canadian alternative health doctor
- William Barefoot (1872–1941), British politician
Given name:
- Barefoot Sanders (1925–2008), American District Judge from Texas
Barefoot also barefooted, the state of not wearing any footwear.
Barefoot may also refer to:
Barefoot (, translit. Yekhefim) is a 2011 Israeli TV miniseries created and directed by Ori Sivan. It aired in 6 episodes on Israel's HOT 3 channel beginning in December 2011.
It is currently being made into a feature film by the same director.
Barefoot (1820–1840) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning a chaotic and controversial race for the classic St Leger Stakes in 1823. Bred and originally trained in Yorkshire, Barefoot was beaten on his debut but began a seven race winning sequence when successful in a minor race at Pontefract in September 1822. As a three-year-old he was unbeaten in five starts including the Spring St Leger at York and the Great St Leger at Doncaster. In the latter event, he finished second in a race which was declared void after a false start before winning a re-run. Barefoot was later sold to William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland and competed for three further seasons with mixed results, his best efforts being wins in the Lancaster Gold Cups of 1825 and 1826. After his retirement from racing he was exported to the United States where he had limited success as a sire of winners before dying as a result of a snake bite in 1840.
Barefoot is a 2014 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Evan Rachel Wood, Scott Speedman, Treat Williams, Kate Burton and J. K. Simmons. It is a remake of the 2005 German film Barfuss. The film premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 2, 2014, before receiving a limited release on February 21, 2014.
Barefoot is a textile design company based in Sri Lanka, which exports its clothing and soft furnishings globally. Barefoot has two retail stores in Colombo and one store in Galle.
Barefoot is the most common term for the state of not wearing any footwear. Barefootedness is not regarded as unusual in many domestic environments, but is subject to criticism in public spaces in many urban environments.
Wearing footwear is an exclusively human characteristic. It has been normal in cold climates since early antiquity, and has since become a convention in most cultures. This is particularly the case in most urban situations, where going barefoot is unusual. While footwear is generally worn for functional, fashion, and societal reasons, many people do not wear shoes at home.
There are health benefits and risks associated with going barefoot. Footwear provides protection from cuts, abrasions, bruises and impacts from objects on the ground or the ground texture itself, as well as from frostbite and parasites like hookworm in extreme situations. However, shoes can limit the flexibility and mobility of the foot and can lead to higher incidences of flexible flat foot, bunions, hammer toe and Morton's neuroma. Walking barefoot results in a more natural gait, allowing for a more rocking motion of the foot, eliminating the hard heel strike hereby generating less collision force in the foot and lower leg.
There are many sports that are performed barefoot, most notably gymnastics and martial arts, but also beach volleyball, barefoot running and water skiing. In modern language, someone who tends not to wear shoes in public or is participating in the afore mentioned sports may be described as a barefooter.
Usage examples of "barefoot".
It was more noticeable in Shiriya-Shenin: their slit robes, curved pairs of blades and manes braided with ceramic beads, their habit of going barefoot on tessellated stone floors.
A barefoot Pict can skip lightly where a booted and battle-ready soldier will sink.
But when she looked out on the gallery and saw the two black children, both of them barefoot, bending down attentively on each side of Flower while she showed them how to print their names in chalk on the piece of slate, Abigail felt a prescience about the future that was more optimistic than any she had experienced in years.
Jeremiah, a barefoot Negro boy no more than eight years old, wearing a sleeveless bleached muslin shirt and pants, cinched at the waist with a rope, sat in a chair in the corner of the high-ceilinged room and pulled a rope attached to a punka overhead.
Two hours before sunset, Father Quine, the priest of the temple of Aeolis, came in his orange robes, walking barefoot and bareheaded up the winding road from the city to the peel-house.
The tourists would gather at the Plaza de Manuel Delgado Barredo, with its little bandstand built on stone, and listen to the orchestra and watch the natives dance the Sardana, the centuries-old traditional folk dance, barefoot, their hands linked, as they moved gracefully around in a colourful circle.
But she was barefoot, and white scars seamed her ribs, licking down between breast and second nipple, familiar on the dark skin.
It was a dim uncompromising hall, with unrubbed walls and a rough raw floor on which no one but a Bloodguard would walk barefoot.
As in the inventories of the thirty towns I find no mention either of stockings or of shoes for Indians, with the exception of the low shoes and buckles worn by the Alferez Real, it seems the gorgeous costumes ended at the knee, and that these popinjays rode barefoot, with, perhaps, large iron Gaucho spurs fastened by strips of mare-hide round their ankles, and hanging down below their naked feet.
Michigan plant of Archimedean, Johnny Barefoot appeared for his appointment with Kathy and found her in a state of gloom.
She remembered the barefoot caddies from Embo, who spoke in Gaelic while cursing the bad golfers for whom they worked.
There was a public procession in which took part the canons of the cathedral church, the clergy of the town, secular and regular, all walking barefoot.
It depicted the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV barefoot in the snow at Canossa, but with one foot on the neck of Pope Gregory the Great, who lay prone, his tiara knocked off, his face ignominiously buried in a snowdrift.
The royal pool was soon chockablock with boys, none younger than six nor older than ten, all barefoot, all dressed to confront the muckiest conditions successfully, all of them armed with great and glittering glass jars.
Had their gowns not been sleeveless, and had they not been barefoot, and had their throats not been locked in collars, one might have mistaken them for free women.