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Stockings, socks, etc
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hosiery
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stocking collectively, 1775, from hosier + -y (1). As "factory where hose is made," from 1803.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Clients needing compression hosiery are measured accurately and given education. ▪ He tried wine importation, brick manufacture, hosiery and the making of perfume from the glands of civets. ▪ In 1903 the Walkers bought a stick ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. undergarments worn on the legs, such as socks, stockings, and pantyhose
Usage examples of hosiery.
She got married, and when her husband died she went to work in a hosiery mill in upstate New York to support three young children, earning 65 cents her first week.
In the department store to the general managership of whose mail-order department he had aspired Jimmy secured a position in the hosiery department at ten dollars a week.
Brewer, through a big cloverleaf, past the brick hulks of two old hosiery mills, along a three-lane highway where in these last years several roadside restaurants have begun proclaiming themselves as Pennsylvania Dutch, with giant plaster Amishmen and neon hex signs.
Now and again a great chocolate-and-yellow tramcar ground round a difficult bend under the hosiery factory.
She plunged through knee-high weeds that stung her legs, snagged her hosiery on some green briers, turned her ankle when she stepped in a hole.
I received a present of Captain Lewis of a fleece hosiery shirt, drawers and socks, a pair of moccasins of Whitehouse, a small Indian basket of Goodrich, two dozen white weasels' tails of the Indian woman, and some black root of the Indians before their departure.
Ironwear hosiery, which contained a patented double-knit feature that prevented runs at the gartering point, was an instant success, and kept growing among our customer base of older, heavier women whom our salesmen respectfully referred to as “the ploppers.