bare-footen
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
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Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] “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)."
Etymology
From Middle English bare foten, equivalent to barefoot + -en (past participle ending). Compare English barefooted.
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Inflected Forms
bare footen (alternative)