Definition of Hosieries

1. hosiery [n] - See also: hosiery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hosieries

hosemonkey
hosen
hosepipe
hosepipes
hoser
hosers
hoses
hosey
hoseyed
hoseying
hoseys
hoshin kanri
hosier
hosieries (current term)
hosiers
hosiery
hosing
hosings
hosp
hospice
hospice care
hospices
hospitability
hospitable
hospitableness
hospitably
hospitage
hospital

Literary usage of Hosieries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1837)
"hosieries was insensibly relaxed ; and the voracious appetite of the Gauls could not imitate the patient and temperate virtue of the Egyptians. ..."

2. A survey of London by John Stow (1842)
"This lane turneth north toward St. Giles in the field : from the south end of this laue in the high street are divers fair build- ings, hosieries, ..."

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