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
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 Washington Irving
The first is a princess garment, made of white stockinet, which takes the place of shirt, pinning-blanket, and band.
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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