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Meanings of white stocking in English

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Usage of white stocking in English
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He looked round, and saw the white stocking lying on a chair.
The Prussian Officer
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The first object he caught sight of was Mr. Hayes' white stocking.
A Mummer's Wife
3
And she pointed to a spot of blood upon the delicate white stocking.
The Champdoce Mystery
4
For a second it lay on the floor, a twist of white stocking.
The Prussian Officer
5
A white stocking is infinitely more effective than a black one.
Twice-Told Tales
6
And as she jumped down, he could see her white stocking.
Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, par...
7
With agony, she saw she had taken a white stocking instead of a handkerchief.
The Prussian Officer
8
Her skirt hitched up to her boot tops, showing a bit of white stocking.
Frontier courtship
9
It was a long white stocking, but there was a little weight in the toe.
The Prussian Officer
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They spoke once or twice of the white stocking.
The Prussian Officer
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He was riding a big black horse with one white stocking on his near fore-leg.
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
12
All this time poor Doodlem was sitting in her armchair, crying, and mending a white stocking.
Adela Cathcart, Volume 3
13
Mr. Hayes' white stocking served for a line, and bump, bump, they went against the door.
A Mummer's Wife
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The white stocking is also in evidence.
The Guardian
15
Her shoe, yes, the mended one, had burst at the side near the toe in a generous bulge of white stocking.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 / An Illustrated Month...
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I feel I've seen the expanse of white stocking between Emma's ankle-length boots and her long skirt that so excited Flaubert.
The Guardian
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