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
-
a word derived from
stocking.
Example Sentences
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Other foreign perils were short, knee-length skirts, stockingless legs, and "wonderful shoes with the full bare heels show ing."
From Time Magazine Archive
Russians frown on low-cut dresses and stockingless legs, and scorn women who wear hats or coats in restaurants.
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
Nevertheless, the Guajira takes good care to display her very small, brown, stockingless feet, thrust into a pair of green or red zapatos, or slippers, in which she intends to dance the Creola.
From Cuba Past and Present by Richard Davey
His dress is barbarous, an ancient and badly fitting pair of trousers, and stockingless feet in untidy boots, on the heels of which he stamps along the streets with a most unpleasant noise.
From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Budgett Meakin
