Crossword clues for hosiery
hosiery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hosiery \Ho"sier*y\, n.
The business of a hosier.
Stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stocking collectively, 1775, from hosier + -y (1). As "factory where hose is made," from 1803.
Wiktionary
n. undergarments worn on the legs, such as socks, stockings, and pantyhose
WordNet
n. socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear as hosiery) [syn: hose]
Wikipedia
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Hosiery, also referred to as legwear, describes garments worn directly on the feet and legs. The term originated as the collective term for products of which a maker or seller is termed a hosier; and those products are also known generically as hose. The term is also used for all types of knitted fabric, and its thickness and weight is defined by denier or opacity. Lower denier measurements of 5 to 15 describe a hose which may be sheer in appearance, whereas styles of 40 and above are dense, with little to no light able to come through on 100 denier items.
The first references to hosiery can be found in works of Hesiod, where Romans are said to have used leather or cloth in forms of strips to cover their lower body parts. Even the Egyptians are speculated to have used hosiery as socks have been found in certain tombs.
Most hosiery garments are made by knitting methods. Modern hosiery is usually tight-fitting by virtue of stretchy fabrics and meshes. Older forms include binding to achieve a tight fit. Due to its close fit, most hosiery can be worn as an undergarment, but it is more commonly worn as a combined under/outer garment.
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.