a. and adv. [f. prec.: see BARE a. IV; cf. barefoot(ed.] With the head uncovered, esp. as a token of respect. Hence Bare-headedness.
c. 1530. Ld. Berners, Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814), 288. He was fayre & gracyous, and he was bare heded.
1601. Weever, Mirr. Mart., Sir J. Oldcastle, Ded. I was contented he should stand bare-headed to these churlish times.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 39, ¶ 1. You shall see an Earl walk bare-headed to the Son of the meanest Artificer.
1822. Scott, Nigel, iii. I was a bare-headed girl at the time.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Rem., 237 (L.). Bareheadedness was in Corinth … a token of honour.
