Bow–legs
outward curvature of the legs causing a separation of the knees when the ankles are close or in contact.
a leg so curved.
Historical Examples
Pelle the Conqueror, Complete Martin Anderson Nexo
Princeton Stories Jesse Lynch Williams
The Red and the Black Stendhal
The Clansman Thomas Dixon
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
Tales from Dickens Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives
Overshadowed Sutton E. Griggs
The U.P. Trail Zane Grey
Steve Yeager William MacLeod Raine
Anne Of The Island Lucy Maud Montgomery
plural noun
a condition in which the legs curve outwards like a bow between the ankle and the thigh Also called bandy legs
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