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barelegged

[ bair-leg-id, -legd ]

adjective

  1. with bare legs.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of barelegged1

First recorded in 1325–75, barelegged is from the Middle English word barlegged. See bare 1, legged
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One sport known for its barelegged shorts is soccer, and these shorts evoke the colorful, crested uniforms of the game.

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Now the two of us watched the snow fall: barefoot, barelegged Georgie, half naked, with feathers in his hair; me with my long braid, and Lissa’s sweatshirt over Miss Lilian’s flowered skirt.

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But when it ends with that mother wading barelegged through five inches of snow to reach you, it’s everything a story should be.

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For this show, there’s candlelight everywhere, and stunning barelegged men and women with lots of eye makeup walking around in furs and heels.

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In December 1935, a Washington Post reporter spied “a barelegged young man in a pair of midsummer shorts and a pair of woolen gloves” scampering around a tennis court, “oblivious to the 12-degree-above-zero weather.”

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