nylons
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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He sold Amway nylons to FBI secretaries while other agents sneered.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025
In clothing, auxetic nylons, fibers and other synthetic materials could prove more comfortable than traditional materials.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024
I'm wearing polyester and nylons and a wig, and I looked in the mirror and said, "Do I have to?"
From Salon • Sep. 23, 2022
“Part of survival, part of how we thrive and make politics, is that possibility of self-fashioning, of beauty, of pleasure, of nylons or the click of your heels,” she said.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2022
She was dressed very smartly, in a navy suit, but with fuzzy pink slippers over her fleshtone nylons.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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