stockinged
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Without shoes, “the floors and carpets get a liberal sprinkling of invisible microorganisms from the visitors’ stockinged feet, some of which are infection producing,” Peter Slade said.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2023
Visitors to the exhibition were required to remove their shoes and walk in booties or stockinged feet on the velour carpet.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2023
When she posed for a graduation photo beside her mother, she subverted the solemnity by dropping a stockinged leg into Ursula’s hand, a la Harpo Marx.
From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2019
Then a maid soundlessly opened the sliding door and, stepping out of her slippers, crept in on stockinged feet, breathing apologies.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017
I know you worried that they would be too big, but they are a perfect fit after I’ve wrapped my stockinged feet in newspapers.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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