bare-footen

English

Alternative forms

• bare footen

Etymology

From Middle English bare foten, equivalent to barefoot +‎ -en (past participle ending). Compare English barefooted.

Adjective

bare-footen (not comparable)

1. (rare, archaic or dialectal, nonstandard) Barefoot.
   • 1796, Sporting Magazine, volume 7, page 211:

     […] “Our host, his fair spouse, and bare-footen maiden, seemed equally strangers to the wholesome duties of ablution; […] ”

   • 2001, Richard Fuller, Escape from Savannah, page 221:

     Seems like the good Lord wants me swimming, Tom thought. Put me twice in the sound in three days, last time bare-footen.

   • 2014, Fernanda Pirie, Judith Scheele, Legalism: Community and Justice, page 128:

     She was ordered to go from her house 'bare footen' and 'with a sheet cast upon her smock' to the Official sitting in St Martin's Church (now Carfax Tower, but then the seat of ecclesiastical authority in Oxford before the creation of the diocese), thence to Oxford Castle (the seat of royal power), back to Carfax, and then to the Bocardo (the town gaol, and a site of civic authority).