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[n] women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk) |
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SILK-STOCKING is a 13 letter word that starts with S. |
| | Synonyms: | | nylon stocking, nylons, rayon stocking, rayons |
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| | See Also: | | stocking |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Silk"-stock`ing\, a.
Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn
chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly
dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; -- chiefly applied to men,
often by way of reproach.
[They] will find their levees crowded with
silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of
officers without soldiers. --Jefferson.
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