cross-legged
having the legs crossed; having one leg placed across the other.
Origin of cross-legged
1Other words from cross-legged
- cross-leg·ged·ly, adverb
- cross-leg·ged·ness, noun
Words Nearby cross-legged
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How to use cross-legged in a sentence
I often sit on the floor and work cross-legged with my laptop.
I remember the carpet in the room in the house in the farm where I was sitting, cross-legged.
When the line was done, he climbed on the stage and sat cross-legged behind a podium, surveying his rapt audience.
He sat up, sat cross-legged, very dignified, as if I were a history major doing a thesis on him.
Freddy, who has not said anything so far, sits cross-legged, now stirring the beans on the fire.
"No," she exclaimed with dainty aplomb to the man who sat cross-legged in muslin draperies on the table.
Hilda | Sarah Jeanette DuncanJack found Mr. Figgins in his cabin, squatting on a cushion cross-legged.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks | Bracebridge HemyngThey either sit down on the carpet cross-legged, or loll on a sofa.
The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume II (of 3) | Elliott CouesTaking it, Orme seated himself cross-legged on a white blanket, which he spread out on the sandy soil.
The Way of a Man | Emerson HoughA few feet beyond there is the goldsmith, squatting cross-legged on the ground outside the door of his shanty.
Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 1/2 | Ida May Hill Starr
British Dictionary definitions for cross-legged
/ (ˈkrɒsˈlɛɡɪd, -ˈlɛɡd) /
sitting with the legs bent and the knees pointing outwards
standing or sitting with one leg crossed over the other
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