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STOCKINGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stockinged mean? 

STOCKINGED (adjective)
  The adjective STOCKINGED has 1 sense:

1. wearing stockingsplay

  Familiarity information: STOCKINGED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STOCKINGED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Wearing stockings

Context example:

walks about in his stockinged feet

Similar:

unshod; unshoed (not shod)


 Context examples 


Prone upon the floor lay Mr. March, with his respectable legs in the air, and beside him, likewise prone, was Demi, trying to imitate the attitude with his own short, scarlet-stockinged legs, both grovelers so seriously absorbed that they were unconscious of spectators, till Mr. Bhaer laughed his sonorous laugh, and Jo cried out, with a scandalized face...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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