stocking
/ˈstɑkɪŋ/ noun B2- A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear. · a pair of stockings
- A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.
- A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.
Plural stockings
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His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.
Dorothy stood up and found she was in her stocking-feet.
That evening Marilla told the whole story to Matthew over her stocking basket.
“Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears?
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