Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the legs crossed; characterized by crossing of the legs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the legs crossed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
cross-legged .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with the legs crossed
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Examples
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Also, the Leap let's me sit crosslegged, which is impossible on an Aeron because of it's metal frame and something I love to do while doing Vectorworks drawings.
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Also, the Leap let's me sit crosslegged, which is impossible on an Aeron because of it's metal frame and something I love to do while doing Vectorworks drawings.
Apartment Therapy Main Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan 2010
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How many were anything but a thing to be sat through, crosslegged on an over-waxed floor, punctuated with hymns projected on a magnolia wall?
Johnny Depp appears at school assembly as Captain Jack Sparrow Eva Wiseman 2010
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Sweeping his hand around the room, Zapata invited me to sit down, and, dropping into the crosslegged seat of the Mexican Indian, proceeded to stare at me for fully five minutes, during which time I had ample opportunity to study him.
The Zapata interview 2009
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Bottom line, the new rules make your fellow passengers farty and crosslegged (ever try not going to the bathroom during the last part of a really long-haul international flight?), the flight attendants seemed to be just as annoyed about the meritless new rules as the passengers, and we were none the safer.
Boing Boing 2009
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Sweeping his hand around the room, Zapata invited me to sit down, and, dropping into the crosslegged seat of the Mexican Indian, proceeded to stare at me for fully five minutes, during which time I had ample opportunity to study him.
The Zapata interview 2009
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The Prophet immediately sank down into a crosslegged position, sitting on a blanket across from the two Whites.
He Don't Know Him 2010
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The audience, seated and crosslegged, closed eyes for an unspeaking minute.
do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010
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And the advent of laptops has made life so much easier–when I sold my first book, 846 years ago, my preferred composition method was to sit crosslegged on my bed with my IBM Selectric, which weighed the Earth, on my lap.
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On a seat or cushion that is slightly raised in the back, we sit, with our back perfectly straight, in either the full vajra, halfvajra or the ordinary crosslegged position, whichever we can, and begin by clearing our mind with a round of the nine tastes of breath.
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