in a general sense, signifies not covered. Hence we say bare-headed, bare-footed, &c.

The Roman women, in times of public distress and mourning, went bare-headed, with their hair loose.—Among both Greeks, Romans, and Barbarians, we find a feast called Nuptidapalia.—The Abyssinians never enter their churches, nor the palaces of kings and great men, but bare-footed.

Bare-foot Carmelites and Augustines, are religious of the order of St. Carmel and St. Austin, who live under a strict observance, and go without shoes, like the capuchins. There are also barefoot fathers of mercy. Formerly there were barefoot dominicans, and even barefoot nuns of the order of St. Augustin.