cross-legged

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cross-legged (not comparable)

2. Having one leg over and across the other.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     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.

4. Having one ankle over and across the other, and the knees far apart.
   • 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 36:

     She sits cross-legged on her charpai' as I look at old pictures.

In the sense “sitting in a chair, with one leg crossed over the other”, the phrase “with legs crossed” is more often used, but for sitting on the floor, one uses “cross-legged”, or a synonym (below).

• (of sitting on the ground): criss-cross applesauce, crosslegs, Indian style, pretzel style, tailor-fashion, tailorwise

cross-legged (not comparable)

1. In a cross-legged position.