a. [f. SOCK sb.1 + -LESS.] Without socks; wearing no socks.

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1607.  Beaum. & Fl., Woman Hater, I. iii. B ij. You shall see many legges too;… one payre, the feete of which, were in times past sockelesse.

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1651.  Loves of Hero & Leander, etc. (1653), 53. Whose arm-pits, and whose socklesse toes, Are not as sweet as amber.

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