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cross-legged
[ kraws-leg-id, -legd, kros- ]
adjective
- having the legs crossed; having one leg placed across the other.
cross-legged
/ -ˈlɛɡd; ˈkrɒsˈlɛɡɪd /
adjective
- sitting with the legs bent and the knees pointing outwards
- standing or sitting with one leg crossed over the other
Other Words From
- cross-legged·ly adverb
- cross-legged·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of cross-legged1
Example Sentences
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.
Jack found Mr. Figgins in his cabin, squatting on a cushion cross-legged.
They either sit down on the carpet cross-legged, or loll on a sofa.
Taking it, Orme seated himself cross-legged on a white blanket, which he spread out on the sandy soil.
A few feet beyond there is the goldsmith, squatting cross-legged on the ground outside the door of his shanty.
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