shoeless

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Etymology

From Middle English sholes, scholes, equivalent to shoe +‎ -less. Compare Dutch schoenloos (“shoeless”), German schuhlos (“shoeless”), Old Norse skólaus (“shoeless”).

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shoeless (not comparable)

a shoeless woman
  1. 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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