stocking
noun
a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.
stockingless
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a word derived from
stocking.
Example Sentences
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Russians frown on low-cut dresses and stockingless legs, and scorn women who wear hats or coats in restaurants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other foreign perils were short, knee-length skirts, stockingless legs, and "wonderful shoes with the full bare heels show ing."
From Time Magazine Archive
Swarthmore girls like to wear sweaters, skirts and saddle shoes, to a girl go stockingless winter & summer.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were all slip-shoed; stockingless some; only under-petticoated all; their gowns, made to cover straddling hoops, hanging trollopy, and tangling about their heels; but hastily wrapt round them, as soon as I came up stairs.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Samuel Richardson
I sprang out of my cot, slipped my stockingless feet into my shoes, drew on my jacket, and met young Boyne at the cabin door.
From The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba by W. Christian Symons
