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 Nudipedia.—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 bare-foot fathers of mercy. Formerly there were bare-foot Dominicans, and even bare-foot nuns of the order of St Augustine.