Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective With the legs uncovered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the legs bare.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
uncovered legs . - adverb With uncovered legs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the legs uncovered by clothing
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Examples
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Your legs will look firmer and more controlled if you wear super-sheer hose instead of going barelegged.
Ask Teri Teri Agins 2012
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The little witch that run barefoot an 'barelegged over all the place?
CHAPTER I 2010
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Found him in a straw house in the bush, barelegged, a white savage, all mixed up with flowers and things and playing a guitar.
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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 loin-cloth, that, like a kilt, fell nearly to his sunburnt knees.
CHAPTER II 2010
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The captain, slouch-hatted and barelegged, with a rolling twist hitched the faded blue lava-lava tighter around his waist and spat tobacco juice overside.
A SON OF THE SUN 2010
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She'd appeared in the doorway at Harry's Bar in Venice, barelegged but in heels.
In Venice Gary Percesepe 2011
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Did you know what was even weirder, boxer shorts, and you were both barelegged?
Patricide: A Romance Chris Vola 2012
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Running aft, barefooted and barelegged, the rainwater dripping from his scant clothing, the mate displaced the black at the wheel.
A SON OF THE SUN 2010
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I gazed at the little kids splashing barelegged in the fountain below, mere yards from a dead body shoved in a door.
Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010
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When the semitropical rains finally arrived she skipped through the bamboo barelegged in a waterproof hat the size of an umbrella made of layers of plaited bamboo.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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