| 单词 | white stocking |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite stocking white stocking n. (chiefly with capital initials) (a name given to) a person who or animal which wears white stockings or has the appearance of doing so. [In quot. 2010 after Russian belye kolgotki, lit. ‘white tights’ or belye čulki, lit. ‘white stockings’, female snipers.] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > leg > horse defined by white stocking1706 stringhalter1872 stumper1874 1706 London Gaz. No. 4219/4 A Plate to be run for,..by Galloways, not exceeding 13 hands and half high, (the Guilford White-Stockings excepted). 1874 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 24 May 8 The White Stockings yesterday earned their third defeat for the season. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Sept. c1/1 Not long ago Russian soldiers in Chechnya and South Ossetia were scared silly with improbable tales of Baltic mercenaries..sometimes known as White Stockings. < as lemmas |
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