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openwork stocking en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (historical) A type of stocking having decorative gaps in the fabric.
   • It was a picture of a girl, all legs and dress and eyelashes, a well-developed blonde in black openwork stockings and a low bodice, and this particular blonde peeped over a black lace fan. 1942, John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down:
   • Perhaps one high heel catching the sunlight, with a bird perched on the end of it; and the other – a stockinged foot, with blood . . . that's dried into the openwork stocking. 1935, Emlyn Williams, Night Must Fall:

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Translations (2)

ru ажурный чуло́к (a type of stocking with gaps in the fabric) · fr bas à jour (a type of stocking with gaps in the fabric)