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Definition of Shoeless
1. Adjective. Without shoes. "Shoeless Joe Jackson"
Definition of Shoeless
1. a. Destitute of shoes.
Definition of Shoeless
1. Adjective. Without shoes ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shoeless
1. having no shoe [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoeless
Literary usage of Shoeless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"Jerry McAuley's Personal Appearance — A Typical Ruffian — A shoeless and Hatless
Brigade—Pinching Out the Name of ..."
2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... A Tough Crowd —Jerry McAuley's Personal Appearance — A Typical Ruffian — A
shoeless and Hatless Brigade — Pinching Out the Name of Jesus—"God Takes what ..."
3. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet (1908)
"Longstreet again considers Relief from Service—General Grant at Knoxville—shoeless
Soldiers leave Bloody Trails on Frozen Roads— A Confederate ..."
4. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet (1895)
"... at Knoxville—shoeless Soldiers leave Bloody Trails on Frozen Roads— A Confederate
Advance—Affair at Dandridge—Federals retreat—Succession of Small ..."
5. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1841)
"... did not render it imperatively necessary that a poor shoeless vagrant should
be hanged by the neck till he was dead. If he still'lives, it is probable ..."
6. The Three Years' Service of the Thirty-third Mass. Infantry Regiment 1862 by Adin Ballou Underwood (1880)
"... and shoeless March for the Relief of Knoxville. Winter Quarters. The dog-days
of 1863 waned at Bristow Station, Va., as everywhere else, ..."
7. Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c.: And of a Cruise in the Black Sea by Sir Adolphus Slade (1833)
"... in consequence of having been maltreated by pirates off Cassandra point; that
he was shoeless, and coat' less, and moneyless;—in fine, wanted aid. ..."
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