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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb & adjective With no covering on the head.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the head uncovered, especially as a token of respect.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Having the head uncovered.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having no covering on the head.
  • adverb With no covering on the head.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having the head uncovered

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Examples

  • This and another carriage and Nolan's four-wheeler blocked the way; but without waiting for them to move up, Carlton leaned out of his hansom and called the bareheaded man to its side.

    The Princess Aline 1895

  • Nolan's four-wheeler blocked the way; but without waiting for them to move up, Carlton leaned out of his hansom and called the bareheaded man to its side.

    The Princess Aline Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • The Parthian, and other more inland sove - reigns of Asia, are sometimes, though seldom, represented ontheircoins bareheaded, with their long hair and bushy beards most finically dres - sed and curled.

    Costume of the ancients Hope, Thomas, 1770?-1831 1812

  • Caine, a kind of bareheaded, bare-footed, 19th century beatnik poet, reflected a national mood of vague spiritual yearning, mixed with unease over the durability of Western values, and partially prompted by the United States 'dispiriting experience with the Vietnam War.

    unknown title 2009

  • In midday, bareheaded, clad only in swimming trunks, Aloysius Pankburn ran down the main street from Lavina's to the water front.

    THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN 2010

  • Beside the car, bareheaded, stood another young man.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • 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.

    CHAPTER XII 2010

  • He was a little man, in patched overalls; bareheaded, with a cotton shirt open at the throat and down the chest.

    Chapter IX 2010

  • The mobs who confronted Baha'u'llah as He was forced to walk in chains, barefooted and bareheaded, from Niyavaran to Tehran jeered him just as the mob jeered Christ on his lonely, cross-burdened walk.

    Laura Weinberg: Divine Love Story: Birth Of A New Revelation Laura Weinberg 2011

  • The mobs who confronted Baha'u'llah as He was forced to walk in chains, barefooted and bareheaded, from Niyavaran to Tehran jeered him just as the mob jeered Christ on his lonely, cross-burdened walk.

    Laura Weinberg: Divine Love Story: Birth Of A New Revelation Laura Weinberg 2011

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