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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