stocking mask

A stocking, usually of nylon, that is worn over the head to distort and disguise facial features.

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stocking mask

(Law) a nylon stocking worn over the face by a criminal to disguise the features

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stocking mask

n → calza di nylon (di bandito mascherato)

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"That person was wearing a black stocking mask and he held a weapon to her throat, a screwdriver or knife."

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The court heard how Mr Paul was asleep on a sofa when he was confronted by Prince, who was wearing a stocking mask and carrying a metal bar.

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The victim, a Thai student who was only 19 at the time, was stabbed eight times and raped in her own room by a man in a stocking mask.

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In Pensacola, Florida, on September 22, a husband and wife were working in their grocery store when a man came in with a stocking mask over his face and said, "This is a stickup." The 60-year-old husband, William Deen, thought it was "some kind of joke" until the robber shoved a gun in his face, reported the News Journal.

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So, when Gordon moseyed up wearing a stocking mask over his face and a pistol in hand, the employees simply didn't buzz him in.

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``We asked the record company to get us some replica guns and we did it with Holly and Paul (Rutherford) waving them about and me with one and a stocking mask over me head.

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A membrane stretched over her head, squashing her face like a bankrobber's stocking mask.

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She has been under the surgeon's knife so often that her skin is stretched like a stocking mask on her face.

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In it Beacom, entirely covered in black from his stocking mask to the tips of his skates, uses his technical innovations to create an otherworldly, nonhuman spider skater, or a shadowy "exhibitionist ninja" caught in a palpably menacing atmosphere.

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