stockinet
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of stockinet
C19: perhaps changed from earlier stocking-net
Example Sentences
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All day and all night delirious crowds paraded, cavorted, gyrated in the streets with red stockinet "liberty caps" on their heads.
From Time Magazine Archive
By oxcart and on burro the peasants came in their red stockinet caps and baggy breeches.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another indication of this trend was that stockinet, a knitted material, was gaining in popularity at the end of the century.
From Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States by Claudia B. Kidwell
The weave known as stockinet is best of all, because goods thus made cling to the body and yet restrict its activity very little.
From Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne
Let the children dress comfortably cool in the house, and as they go out to play add rubber boots or leggings and rubbers, sweaters, caps with ear laps or the stockinet cap.
From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler
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