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
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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
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
In three weeks my collars would not meet round my prize-fighter's neck; my hosier reaped immense profits, and I came to the conclusion that I had carried physical efficiency quite far enough.
From Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett
An honest hosier and draper, serge and longcloth warehouseman"—he groaned from rib to rib—"at the sign of the Gartered Kitten in the loyal town of Dulverton.
From Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
At an early age, says Dr. Rogers, his parents removed to Glasgow, where, in his thirteenth year, he was apprenticed to a hosier.
From Curious Epitaphs by Various
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