FromMiddle Englishbare foten, equivalent tobarefoot +-en(past participle ending). CompareEnglishbarefooted.
bare-footen (notcomparable)
- (rare, archaic or dialectal, nonstandard)Barefoot.
1796,Sporting Magazine, volume 7, page211:[…] “Our host, his fair spouse, andbare-footen maiden, seemed equally strangers to the wholesome duties of ablution;[…]”
2001, Richard Fuller,Escape from Savannah, page221:Seems like the good Lord wants me swimming, Tom thought. Put me twice in the sound in three days, last timebare-footen.
2014, Fernanda Pirie, Judith Scheele,Legalism: Community and Justice, page128: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).
