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hosier
[ hoh-zher ]
noun
- a person who makes or deals in hose or stockings or goods knitted or woven like hose.
hosier
/ ˈhəʊzɪə /
noun
- a person who sells stockings, etc
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Example Sentences
Then came a hosier and a bootmaker and a hatter; nay, I was forgetting a jeweller from Temple Bar.
Poor Vondel kept a hosier's shop, which he left to the care of his wife, while he indulged his poetical genius.
Leonard now shone forth in all the glory which the united powers of tailor, hatter, and hosier, could spread around lug person.
When they came opposite to a hosier's shop, in Oxford-street, the stranger thanked him, and desired to be set down.
In the front of the frame, immediately opposite to where the hosier sits, are placed the needles which form the loops.
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