shoeless
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English sholes, scholes, equivalent to shoe + -less. Compare Dutch schoenloos (“shoeless”), German schuhlos (“shoeless”), Old Norse skólaus (“shoeless”).
Adjective[edit]
shoeless (not comparable)
- Without shoes; not wearing shoes
- He ran shoeless from the burning house.
- c. 1681, Lancelot Addison, The Moores baffled: being a discourse concerning Tanger:
- The ground about was thick sown with caltrops, which very much incommoded the shoeless Moors.
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Translations[edit]
without shoes