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nylon stocking

n. women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk) [syn: nylons, rayons, rayon stocking, silk stocking]

Usage examples of "nylon stocking".

She could see the wet spot on the nylon stocking where his mouth was, and just the barest flash of eyes, but nothing else.

His face was white, his features flattened beneath a white nylon stocking.

Brandy Alexander, her nylon stocking feet up on the dashboard, the queen supreme's still reading her paperback.

Ruth felt as if the entire road had been blocked by an invisible nylon stocking, one large enough to fit a female Titan.

You don't even have a nylon stocking you can pull over your face, Normie, do you?

He picked up a nylon stocking, gossamer thin but strong, held it between his hands, and then placed it on the pillow above her head, stretched tautly.

In fact, she couldn't even be sure that he wasn't still wearing the nylon stocking over his face that Gina had described.

The police said it sounded as if he were wearing a nylon stocking over his face.

The driver, a black man wearing a woman's nylon stocking cap with a little topknot in it, didn't know where Spring Street was, either.

Then they let me go with an apology, explaining that a man had just robbed a bank down the street, with a lady's nylon stocking over his head.

I knotted a nylon stocking in place, webbing it between her teeth and against the Kleenex so she couldn't tongue it out of the way and start yelling.

Sorbi is a strangler but never uses his hands: it is nearly always a nylon stocking, infrequently a cord.