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silk stocking

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

Usage examples of "silk stocking".

However, Guthrie Featherstone was a tall man, with a good calf in a silk stocking, and he took with him Marigold, his lady wife, who was young enough, and I suppose pretty enough, for Henry our junior clerk to eye wistfully, although she had the sort of voice that puts me instantly in mind of headscarves and gymkhanas, that high pitched nasal whining which a girl learns from too much contact with the saddle when young, and too little with the Timsons of this world in later life.

He thought of the shoe she had been sent, and the black silk stocking, and the handcuffs and for an instant he wished, devoutly wished, that Gini had dark hair.

The remnants of his breeches, his silk stocking, the bandage and his dancing shoe were all soaked in a slippery mess of blood.

Jamie observed, wriggling long, slender toes into a silk stocking.

Bazie, darning yet another silk stocking, noted Skif's incredulous stare as he did so, and snorted.

Like maybe he couldn't stand her ranting and raving and all her plans, and he tied a silk stocking around her neck and-.