unshoed en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + shoed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not wearing shoes.
Rowena, with one ungainly unshoed foot Shoves the pail against the plastered wall
2010, Robert Joseph Foley, “Doppelgänger”, in These Little Poems of Death and After Life, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 71:Curled underneath the beading table with the unshoed feet of women, you hear things you'd never want to know.
1998, Louise Erdrich, The Antelope Wife, Perennial, published 2001, →ISBN, page 83:[…] he taught the uncovered head to dare the winter's snow; the unshoed foot to brave the biting ice […]
1814, James Fennell, An Apology for the Life of James Fennell, Moses Thomas, page 380:
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Synonyms
unshod · discalceate · barefoot · barefooted · shoeless · discalced