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Definition of Stockings
1. stocking [n] - See also: stocking
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stockings
Literary usage of Stockings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1903)
"THE QUEEN OF THE ' BLUE-stockings.' 1. The Letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu,
u'ith soine of the Letters of her Correspondents. Published by Matthew Montagu, ..."
2. Archives of Maryland by Maryland Historical Society (1887)
"Liber A. 2 paire of newe Irish stockings and about a yard of ) blew ... j 2 old
paire of stockings, i old coate, i old doublet, I , One paire of Pincers & a ..."
3. A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins by Johann Beckmann (1846)
"Hence it may be readily comprehended why knit stockings can be so easily and so
speedily un-knit, in order that the thread may be employed for new work; ..."
4. A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins by Johann Beckmann (1846)
"There are two methods of knitting, essentially different from each other; the
one employed in making nets, and the other in knitting stockings. ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"It was so selfish of her to be dreaming about a pair of stockings, ... "One could
not move half so easily in stockings," she thought with true philosophy, ..."
6. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1877)
"OF THE stockings. oo eo ... DAYRE. ways hung up our stockings before. On Christinas
morning one yesterday it turned up in the funniest place. ..."
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