a. [f. prec. + -ED.] = prec., and more frequently used by recent writers.
a. c. 1530. Ld. Berners, Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814), 268. Chanons, preestes, and clarkes … all barefoted.
1598. Hakluyt, Voy., I. 109. Wee stoode … bare-footed and bare-headed.
1670. G. H., Hist. Cardinals, I. II. 46. The Preacher was a bare-footed Franciscan.
1884. Q. Victoria, More Leaves, 123. Picturesque barefooted lasses.
b. 1780. Coxe, Russ. Disc., 104. The greatest part go bare-footed, and all are without breeches.
1847. Longf., Ev., II. i. Thus did that poor soul wander … Bleeding, barefooted over the shards and thorns.
