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
Either a round or an oblong hole may be cut in the stockinet, the round hole being three-fourths of an inch across, and the oblong three-fourths of an inch by one inch.
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
The nightgowns should be made of soft cotton flannel or stockinet.
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
He wore a pair of dingy white stockinet pantaloons, which had much ado to reach his waistcoat; a great quantity of dirty cravat; and a pair of old russet-colored tragedy boots.
From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington
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