stockinette
Americannoun
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Also stockinet a stretchy, machine-knitted fabric used for making undergarments, infants' wear, etc.
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Also called stockinette stitch. Knitting. a knitting pattern made by alternating single rows of knit stitches and of purl stitches in such a way that all the knit stitches show on one side of the fabric and all the purl stitches on the other.
Etymology
Origin of stockinette
First recorded in 1775–85; earlier stocking-net
Example Sentences
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It debuted during the 2016 presidential election, and features a skull-and-crossbones motif — the skull in a stockinette stitch, and the bones, a crochet hook and a knitting needle.
From New York Times • May 8, 2020
May was in scarlet and looked, as she lay there in the castness, not much bigger than Jenny's cap of scarlet stockinette, left long ago on the beach at Clacton.
From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton
They seem to be just long bags, nearly a yard long, of black stockinette stuff.
From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
She turned them about and remembered the shapeliness of the stockinette jerseys smocked and small and clinging that she had worn at school.
From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller
In scarlet serge dress and cap of scarlet stockinette, she danced to the tinsel melody.
From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton
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