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bare·head·ed

 (bâr′hĕd′ĭd)
adv. & adj.
With no covering on the head: walking bareheaded in the rain; a bareheaded pedestrian.

bare′head′ed·ness n.
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bareheaded

(ˌbɛəˈhɛdɪd)
adj
with head uncovered
adv
archaic Also: barehead with head uncovered
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

bare•head•ed

(ˈbɛərˌhɛd ɪd)

also bare′head`,



adj., adv.
with the head uncovered.
[1520–30]
bare′head`ed•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.bareheaded - having the head uncoveredbareheaded - having the head uncovered; "caught bareheaded by the downpour"; "with bared head"
unclothed - not wearing clothing
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Translations
مَكْشوف الرأس
prostovlasýs nepokrytou hlavou
barhovedet
fedetlen fejû
berhöfîa
prostovlasý
başı açıkşapkasız

bareheaded

[ˈbɛəˈhedɪd] ADJcon la cabeza descubierta
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bareheaded

[ˌbɛərˈhɛdɪd]
adjnu-tête inv, (la) tête nue
advnu-tête, (la) tête nue
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bareheaded

[ˌbɛəˈhɛdɪd] adj & adva capo scoperto
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bare

(beə) adjective
1. uncovered or naked. bare skin; bare floors.
2. empty. bare shelves.
3. of trees etc, without leaves.
4. worn thin. The carpet is a bit bare.
5. basic; essential. the bare necessities of life.
verb
to uncover. The dog bared its teeth in anger.
ˈbarely adverb
scarcely or only just. We have barely enough food.
ˈbareness noun
ˈbareback adverb, adjective
without a saddle. I enjoy riding bareback.
ˈbarefaced adjective
openly impudent. a barefaced lie.
ˈbarefoot(ed) adjective, adverb
not wearing shoes or socks etc. The children go barefoot on the beach.
ˌbareˈheaded adjective, adverb
not wearing a hat etc.
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References in classic literature ?
Arrived here, he stood for a moment in the middle of the road, bareheaded. There was not a breath of wind anywhere.
While recollections of many a noble picture were still passing through his mind, he was startled by the sudden appearance of a bareheaded woman on the terrace steps.
Yahoo!" I shouted, when I thought it was meet to arouse Maud; but this time I shouted in merriment as I danced about the beach, bareheaded, in mock despair.
The sunlight lingered on the purple crests, and we could see him leading the way to his stockade, a burly bareheaded figure walking far in advance of a straggling cortege, and swinging regularly an ebony staff taller than himself.
A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.
She rushed in bareheaded, carrying him in her arms, with his knee all beautifully bandaged, and was so sympathetic and beautiful that my wife was too dazzled to ask her name."
It was Trooper Dunning, unarmed and bareheaded. The object at his feet resolved itself into a dead horse, and at a right angle across the animal's neck lay a dead man, face upward in the moonlight.
Suddenly, out of the companion would appear a tall, dark figure, bareheaded, with a short white beard of a perpendicular cut, very visible in the dark - Captain S-, disturbed in his reading down below by the frightful bounding and lurching of the ship.
In this cold and darkness there went along the street a poor little girl, bareheaded, and with naked feet.
The landlord, in plain clothes, and bareheaded, placed himself on the bottom marble step, abreast the PORTIER, who stood on the other end of the same steps; six or eight waiters, gloved, bareheaded, and wearing their whitest linen, their whitest cravats, and their finest swallow-tails, grouped themselves about these chiefs, but leaving the carpetway clear.
She fell to wondering what her life would have been like had she been born a Chinese woman, or an Italian woman like those she saw, head-shawled or bareheaded, squat, ungainly and swarthy, who carried great loads of driftwood on their heads up from tha beach.
Whenever we rode over in that direction we saw her out among her cattle, bareheaded and barefooted, scantily dressed in tattered clothing, always knitting as she watched her herd.