hosier

American  

[hoh-zher] / ˈhoʊ ʒər /

noun

1. a person who makes or deals in hose or stockings or goods knitted or woven like hose.

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hosier British  

/ ˈhəʊzɪə /

noun

1. a person who sells stockings, etc

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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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Example Sentences

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hosier

The son of a hosier, he married the illiterate daughter of a Battersea market gardener.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2010

Here he started as a hosier in St. Paul’s Churchyard, lodging meantime in the house of a milliner, where he fell in love with one of the apprentices, Miss Griffiths, “a native of Wales.”

From The Life of George Borrow by Clement K. Shorter

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

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

Here Izaak Walton, the gentle angler, lived while engaged in the vocation of hosier at the corner of Chancery Lane.

From Dickens' London by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

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