bareheaded

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   wearing no hat or other covering on the head

   She ran bareheaded into the rain to close the gate.

2. 2
   adv

   with no covering on the head

   The children waited bareheaded in the summer sun.

Formed from bare + headed. English has used the compound since the late Middle Ages for a person whose head is uncovered.

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