shoeless

adj

Etymology: From Middle English sholes, scholes, equivalent to shoe + -less. Compare Dutch schoenloos (“shoeless”), German schuhlos (“shoeless”), Old Norse skólaus (“shoeless”).

1. Without shoes; not wearing shoes

   “He ran shoeless from the burning house.”

   “The ground about was thick sown with caltrops, which very much incommoded the shoeless Moors.”