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
When the girls had driven off, Michael recovered his ordinary appearance by visiting a barber and a hosier.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
My schule days owre, I began the world in the capacity o' shopman to my faither, wha was a hosier to business, and carried on a sma', but canny trade in that line.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
The tailor, the hosier, the bootmaker, the hair-dresser, were in turn visited by this poor pagan of externals.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
William Bunyan, lieutenant in the navy, 1767; Thomas Bunyan, hosier, 1776.
From Notes and Queries, Number 228, March 11, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
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