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shoeless

adj

Etymology

From Middle English sholes, scholes, equivalent to shoe + -less. Compare Dutch schoenloos (“shoeless”), German schuhlos (“shoeless”), Old Norse skólaus (“shoeless”).

  1. inherited from sholes

Definitions

  1. Without shoes

    Without shoes; not wearing shoes

    • He ran shoeless from the burning house.
    • The ground about was thick sown with caltrops, which very much incommoded the shoeless Moors.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA