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Meanings of blue stockings in English

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Usage of blue stockings in English
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He pointed out the leading critics and the blue stockings of the day.
The Summons
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Again the wearers of bedraggled blue stockings surged and broke against the line.
The Half-Back: A Story of School, Football, and Golf
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Indifferently, she continued to swing her legs, displaying her blue stockings with ostentation.
The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution
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Her blue stockings and slippers were on the bedroom floor.
The maltese falcon
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He has even made blue stockings and strange little shoes.
The Tempting of Tavernake
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We've got one that might fit-a short blue silk skirt-lowneck and blue stockings.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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She told friends she had chosen the horse because she was, that day, wearing blue stockings.
The Irish Times
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Why is it that so blamed many of your fine old blue stockings are hunting jobs-
The Prince of Graustark
9
You and Gwen are the blue stockings, so the study will be given over to you.'
The Carved Cupboard
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The man wore a suit of black fustian, a foxskin cap, blue stockings and heavy shoes.
Which? Or, Between Two Women
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Why should a woman wear blue stockings because she had a blue gown, he wondered idly.
The Tempting of Tavernake
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One could see her bony ankles and her dried-up calves covered with coarse blue stockings shaking horribly.
Original Short Stories — Volume 03
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There are pale blue stockings and pumps.
The Girl and Her Religion
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My Pa's gaiters against Ideala's blue stockings.
Ideala
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A gray skirt, too short, fell to the middle of her legs, which were encased in blue stockings.
Original Short Stories — Volume 04
16
Old farmers, a spare leathern-faced race, in homespun coats and breeches, blue stockings, huge shoes, and magnificent pewter buckles.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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