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Meaning of bare-footen | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Barefoot.

archaic, dialectal, nonstandard, not-comparable, rare

Examples

“[…] “Our host, his fair spouse, and bare-footen maiden, seemed equally strangers to the wholesome duties of ablution; […]””
“Seems like the good Lord wants me swimming, Tom thought. Put me twice in the sound in three days, last time bare-footen.”
“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).”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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