cross-legged

adj, adv — 3 senses

cross-legged

adj

1

Having one leg over and across the other.

Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

2

Having one ankle over and across the other, and the knees far apart.

She sits cross-legged on her charpai' as I look at old pictures.2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 36:

Synonyms: criss-cross applesauce, crosslegs, Indian style, pretzel style, tailor-fashion, tailorwise

cross-legged

adv

1

In a cross-legged position.

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