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Meanings of rayon stocking in English

Women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk)

Synonyms
Examples for "nylons"
Examples for "nylons"
1
One reporter asked me if I wore makeup or nylons into battle.
Beautiful assassin
2
Chrissake, I got a few weeks invested and a couple of nylons.
King Rat
3
Some decorum is in order -nylons and a decent handbag.
The Irish Times
4
You know, negligees, nylons, bras and panties, that kind of thing.
Finders Keepers
5
The nylons melted when they came in contact with the particles.
The new yorker
1
Director Denial with a rope of twisted nylon stocking tied around her wrist.
Haunted: a novel of stories
2
A nylon stocking was tied tightly round her neck and she almost choked.
The Irish Times
3
A nylon stocking was pulled over his face, distorting his features.
Watch them die
4
Just then the tight skin starts to tear, the way a nylon stocking gaps open.
Haunted: a novel of stories
5
Above the nylon stocking, the Director's hand lies pale in a puddle of dark red.
Haunted: a novel of stories
1
Fine rayons are made of that substance.
The new yorker
1
Marian's evening gown was torn and one silk stocking sagged at the ankle.
The Tyranny of Weakness
2
He set his foot on the chair and stripped the silk stocking down his leg.
Ensign Knightley, and Other Stories
3
She had lost one shoe, and there was a great hole in her silk stocking.
The Vanished Messenger
4
He hitched up a leg of the riding-breeches and displayed a long, green silk stocking.
The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
5
I laughed, and started to draw on to the foot a silk stocking, while Mlle.
The Gambler
Usage of rayon stocking in English
1
People stand in in line for hours waiting to buy the old, wartime rayon stockings rather than nylons.
The new yorker
2
In the US nylon began to replace silk and rayon stockings but nylon stockings were difficult to get in Europe.
The Irish Times