stockinet
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of stockinet
C19: perhaps changed from earlier stocking-net
Example Sentences
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By oxcart and on burro the peasants came in their red stockinet caps and baggy breeches.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Follow the exercise in stockinet darning, in which the principles of darning have been taught, with the darning of a pair of worn stockings that the pupils have brought from home.
From Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care by McGlauflin, Idabelle
For riding during the hot weather in India and other tropical countries, a very useful garment is a Norfolk jacket in cream stockinet, which can be purchased ready-made.
From The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. by Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace)
Her mother—a sweet little lady of five— Vouchsafed her parental protection, And although stockinet Wasn't blue-blooded, yet She really could make no objection!
From Love-Songs of Childhood by Field, Eugene
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