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silk stocking

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silk stocking
n.
A wealthy, aristocratic, or elegantly dressed person.
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Noun1.silk stockingsilk stocking - women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk)
stocking - close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)

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She had lost one shoe, and there was a great hole in her silk stocking.
I laughed, and started to draw on to the foot a silk stocking, while Mlle.
I glanced down at the foot from which the shoe was absent, and saw that the silk stocking on it, once white, now yellow, had been trodden ragged.
 
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