sockedadj.
Wearing socks. In quot. 1788 figurative.
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blue-stockinged1649
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silk-stockinged1850
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1788 Trifler No. 2. 21 The buskin'd and sock'd inhabitants of Drury-lane and Covent-garden.
1918 W. J. Locke Rough Road xxiii. 293 Her thoughts winged themselves back to an afternoon, remote almost as her socked and sashed childhood.
1937 L. Durrell Panic Spring vii. 116 Her brown socked legs stretched out under the dashboard.
1976 ‘J. Ross’ I know what it's like to Die i. 7 Five feet and eight inches..in his socked feet.
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adj.1788