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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)
nylon stocking, nylons, rayon stocking, rayons
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.
The Vanished Messenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
I laughed, and started to draw on to the foot a silk stocking, while Mlle.
The Gambler by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
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