stockingless
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- Not wearing stockings.
- Synonym: unstockinged
- 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Mrs. Flintwinch has a Dream”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), page 31:
- 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, “To Life”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 232:
- 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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