discalced
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin discalceātus (“barefoot”) + -ed, rendering French déchaussé. By surface analysis, dis- + calced.
Pronunciation
Adjective
discalced (not comparable)
- (Roman Catholicism) Pertaining to a religious order that historically forswore the wearing of shoes.
- Brother John is a member of the Discalced Carmelites.
- (formal, more generally) Shoeless; without shoes on; barefoot, or wearing sandals rather than shoes.
- 2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, page 24:
- They were discalced to a man like pilgrims of some common order for all their shoes were long since stolen.
Related terms
Translations
pertaining to a religious order that was historically barefoot
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References
- ^ “discalced”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
