stocking-footn.
1. That part of a stocking which covers the foot.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > stocking > parts of > which covers foot (and ankle)
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stocking-foot1768
1768 W. Sharp in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 86 I do not always remove the shoe and stocking-foot.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xii. lxviii. 385 What a convenience to have one's wife's maid to sew on one's buttons, and keep one's toes in one's stocking-feet!
1884 W. T. Rowlett tr. G. Willkomm Technol. Framework Knitting ii. 342 Socks or half-hose. The feet are made in the same way as stocking feet.
2. As a purse or receptacle for money laid by. Chiefly figurative.
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1894 ‘H. Haliburton’ Furth in Field ii. 75 The cadger was just as eager to make the petty disbursement from his ‘stocking-foot’ or leather pouch.
1915 J. Buchan Nelson's Hist. War V. xl. 153 For them [i.e. the Treasury bonds] the peasant and the small tradesman brought out his store of gold from the stocking-foot.
3. (in, on) one's stocking feet: with only one's stockings on one's feet, without one's shoes.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing stockings
stockinged1609
(in, on) one's stocking feet1805
stockinged1862
stocking-footed1926
stocking-feeted1973
sock-footed1981
1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 12 Wully..in his clogs top teyme did beat; But Tamer, in her stockin feet, She bang'd him out and out.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. iii. 146 Leaving their shoes at the door, and entering devoutly, on their stocking feet.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. viii. 84 Binnie found the Colonel..arrayed in what are called in Scotland his stocking-feet.
1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne I. xii. 243 In his stocking-feet..he was five feet five.
1901 T. W. Wilson T'Bacca Queen xxvii. 247 Her husband was seated in stocking feet in the rocking-chair.
4. The loose or pendent part of a stocking-cap. rare.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > other
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stocking-foot1921
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1921 D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia v. 161 The old boy brings his stocking-foot over the left ear.
Derivatives
stocking-footed adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing stockings
stockinged1609
(in, on) one's stocking feet1805
stockinged1862
stocking-footed1926
stocking-feeted1973
sock-footed1981
1926 J. F. Dobie Rainbow in Morning (1965) 99 I had a bay, white-faced, and stocking-footed horse called Buck.
stocking-feeted adj. having stocking-feet; in stocking feet.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing stockings
stockinged1609
(in, on) one's stocking feet1805
stockinged1862
stocking-footed1926
stocking-feeted1973
sock-footed1981
1973 J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 114 The leather-jacketed, stocking-feeted Hell's Angel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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