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stockingless

stockingless

English

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stockingless (not comparable)

  1. not wearing stockings
    • 1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, book 1, chapter 4
      Mrs Flintwinch crossed the hall, feeling its pavement cold to her stockingless feet, and peeped in between the rusty hinges on the door, which stood a little open.
    • 1901, Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career:
      Her tremendous, flabby, stockingless ankles bulged over her unlaced hobnailed boots; her dress was torn and unbuttoned at the throat, displaying one of the dirtiest necks I have seen.

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