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fishnetty en · ADJ

Etymology

From fishnet + -y.

Meanings

1. Made of fishnet.
   • “I come for the music and the exercise,” said one woman who was wearing high boots and a terrific fishnetty kind of top. 1994 January 2, James Quig, “Boys’ night out”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page F 2, column 2:
   • While everyone else is sartorially correct in leotards and leggings, she is busting out of something fishnetty that looks as if it came from the Pleasure Chest. 1995 January 3, Liz Brody, “Sweaty Encounters of an Aerobic Kind”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: The Times Mirror Company, →ISSN, page E3, column 4:
   • Fishnetty fabrics are being hauled in by the yard by out-for-a-catch designers. 1964 October 16, Anne Batt Calling, “All Strung Up”, in Liverpool Echo and Evening Express, number 26,391, Liverpool, Merseyside, page 18:
   • Stemming the culottes, sand-colored fishnetty tights by Hudson Hosiery. 1967 March, “Khaki & What Wows It”, in Betsy Talbot Blackwell, editor, Mademoiselle, New York, N.Y.: The Condé Nast Publications Inc., →ISSN, page 136:
   • I thought Frizz would be too shy, but she immediately pulled off the jeans and put on the suspender belt, and a pair of stockings that went with it – black and fishnetty. 2002, Jean Ure, chapter 3, in Girls Are Groovy! (Girlfriends; 3), London: Orchard Books, Hachette Children’s Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 53:
   • Yesterday she had on a black bra under a pink fishnetty thing. 2016, Heather Tucker, chapter 30, in The Clay Girl: A Novel, Toronto, Ont.: ECW Press, a misFit book, →ISBN, page 132:
   • At this showing of the cult film at midnight tonight, Indecent Exposure, the “official” live touring company, will appear simultaneously on stage, with props, in full-blown, tacky, fishnetty costume and make-up to enhance the cult experience. 1991 August 16, “Events”, in The Press Democrat, 134th year, number 299, Santa Rosa, Calif., →ISSN, page D8, column 4:
   • Used to be a bore to buy stockings. Now it’s fun! […] Choose shimmers. Flat mattes. Filmy sheers. Knee-high. Thigh-high. Tights. Opaques. Laces. Fishnetty ones. 1967 October 10, Nan Duskin, “close-up: legs”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 277, number 102, Philadelphia, Pa.: Triangle Publications, Inc., →ISSN, page 7:
   • He also appears on the cover of Manchester Slingback. Twice. In leather queen gear on the front and rampant, fishnetty drag on the back. 1999 August 14, Stephanie Bunbury, “A watcher in the shadows”, in The Age, Melbourne, Vic., →ISSN, Saturday Extra section, page 5, column 2:
   • Today, when I’m sure it hit mid-80s in the city, Margot is wearing a knee-length black dress, fishnetty tights, and clunky shoes. 2011, Kilian Betlach, “Fourth First Day”, in We Are Almost Always on the Verge, San Francisco, Calif.: Mutiny Pressings, →ISBN, page 120:
2. Resembling or characteristic of fishnet.
   • This week in far-flung Northern Hemispheric ports the state of some gels’ sartorial gorgeousness is being measured by the exotic nature (or not) of their lacy, meshy, sort of fishnetty tights. 1995 December 6, Janice Breen Burns, “Babble On”, in The Age, 142nd year, number 43,843, Melbourne, Vic., →ISSN, page 16, column 4:
   • […] Mrs. Vreeland was wearing […] a cool black sheath of some cobwebby kind of material, sleeveless, and skimming over her body like a second skin. And the black of her hair was pulled into a black snood, fishnetty and smart as could be. 1985, Gloria Vanderbilt, “Mrs. Vreeland and Camels and Rubies”, in Once Upon a Time: A True Story, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, pages 244–245:
   • Her pale blue-blues glare out from a fishnetty pattern of eyeshadow that raccoons up her face. 2016, Robert J[ason] Peterson, “Booker, Glenn”, in Omegaball, Los Angeles, Calif.: A California Coldblood Book, Rare Bird Books, →ISBN, page 30:

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