hosier
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hosier
First recorded in 1375–1425, hosier is from the late Middle English word hosiare. See hose, -ier 1
Example Sentences
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The son of a hosier, he married the illiterate daughter of a Battersea market gardener.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2010
Does it not remind you of the epitaph to the French hosier, where, after the enumeration of his virtues as husband and father, the widow announces that she 'continues the business at the old estab.,
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Edmund Downey
When the girls had driven off, Michael recovered his ordinary appearance by visiting a barber and a hosier.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
He did not understand this galoche having been the sign of a hosier, nor the purport of the earthenware cask—a common cider-keg—and, to be candid, the St. Peter was lamentable with his drunkard's physiognomy.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
And Miss Fleece, who's a hosier, and not quite as young, But is wealthier far than Miss Flounce, She "entertains" also to-night with cold tongue, Smoked herring, and cherry-bounce.
From Fanny With Other Poems by Fitz-Greene Halleck
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