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silk-stocking
[ silk-stok-ing ]
adjective
- rich or luxurious in dress.
- aristocratic or wealthy:
a silk-stocking neighborhood.
noun
- a person who dresses richly or luxuriously.
- an aristocratic or wealthy person.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of silk-stocking1
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Example Sentences
They parachuted these silk-stocking lawyers into the area, offer quick settlements and get the victims to sign these waivers.
He crossed his legs and set on his knee an ankle clothed in a purple silk stocking.
About you, forsooth; Im drawing up a hole in your white silk stocking.
While you may lose some votes from the ‘near-silk stocking’ class, yet for every vote so lost hundreds will rally to you.
First they saw Persis' slipper, a golden slipper on a slim, gold-silk stocking.
She sat with crossed knees, slowly balancing a foot in silk stocking and grey shoe, sure sign that she was dreaming.
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