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Definition of Body stocking
1. Noun. A one-piece tight-fitting undergarment for women that covers the torso (and may have sleeves and legs).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Body Stocking
Literary usage of Body stocking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Girls by Dio Lewis (1871)
"... etc—OUTRAGES UPON THE BODY — Fashionable Sufferings—How GIRLS SHOULD WALK—Rubber
Boots and Shoes—Woman Tortures her Body—Stocking Supporters—LARGE vs. ..."
2. Christmas Entertainments: Containing Fancy Drills, Acrostics, Motion Songs by Alice Maude Kellogg (1918)
"I wish my son Santa Clans had as fine a gift to put in every poor body's stocking.
He is out on his rounds now. but expects to be back, as he said, ..."
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