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
He was a hosier in Aberdeen, but came to London to improve his fortunes.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
Have you not an obligation to that linen draper, and hosier, and I don't know who, there, upon your chimney-piece, if you take their things, and don't pay for them?'
From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
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
Yes, I am proud to say, he was a hosier to begin with, and a linen-draper to end with—well-to-do in both lines.
From A Houseful of Girls by Sarah Tytler
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