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unshoed

unshoed

English

Adjective

unshoed (not comparable)

  1. Not wearing shoes.
    • 1814, James Fennell, An Apology for the Life of James Fennell, Moses Thomas (1814), page 380:
      [] he taught the uncovered head to dare the winter's snow; the unshoed foot to brave the biting ice []
    • 1998, Louise Erdrich, The Antelope Wife, Perennial (2001), ISBN 0060187263, page 83:
      Curled underneath the beading table with the unshoed feet of women, you hear things you'd never want to know.
    • 2010, Robert Joseph Foley, "Doppelgänger", in These Little Poems of Death and After Life, Xlibris (2010), ISBN 9781456815417, page 71:
      Rowena, with one ungainly unshoed foot
      Shoves the pail against the plastered wall

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Verb

unshoed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of unshoe