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barelegged

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bare·leg·ged  (bârlgd, -lgd)
adv. & adj.
With the legs uncovered: ran barelegged through the surf; barelegged children on the beach.

barelegged·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.barelegged - having the legs uncovered by clothing; "barelegged children on the beach"
unclothed - not wearing clothing
Translations
barelegged [ˈbɛəˈlegɪd] ADJcon las piernas descubiertas
barelegged [ˌbɛəˈlɛgd] adja gambe scoperte
barelegged [ˌbɛəˈlɛgd] adja gambe scoperte


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Tom flung off his jacket and trousers, turned a suspender into a belt, raked away some brush behind the rotten log, dis- closing a rude bow and arrow, a lath sword and a tin trumpet, and in a moment had seized these things and bounded away, barelegged, with fluttering shirt.
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.
A strapping, ruddy girl was beating flax or some such stuff in a little bit of a good-box of a barn, and she swung her flail with a will--if it was a flail; I was not farmer enough to know what she was at; a frowsy, barelegged girl was herding half a dozen geese with a stick--driving them along the lane and keeping them out of the dwellings; a cooper was at work in a shop which I know he did not make so large a thing as a hogshead in, for there was not room.
 
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