Definition of "barefooted"

By following the sound I came upon a bare-footed old woman with a yellow dried-up countenance, who was bending down over the pigs' trough, busy filling it with food, for which the noisy little creatures were fighting, tearing, pushing, and yelling, with expectation and delight.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 278

There were no roads, only paths through the grass worn away by barefooted boys and women.

1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 9