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openwork stockings

openwork stockings is the plural of openwork stocking.

Meaning of openwork stocking

Noun

openwork stocking (plural openwork stockings)

  1. (historical) A type of stocking having decorative gaps in the fabric.
    • Perhaps one high heel catching the sunlight, with a bird perched on the end of it; and the other – a stockinged foot, with blood . . . that's dried into the openwork stocking.1935, Emlyn Williams, Night Must Fall

Questions about openwork stockings

What is openwork stockings the plural of?
Openwork stockings is the plural of openwork stocking.

Words near openwork stockings in the dictionary

  1. openwashed
  2. openwashes
  3. openwashing
  4. openwork
  5. openwork stocking
  6. openwork stockings
  7. openworks
  8. OpenXPS
  9. opepe
  10. opephoroid
  11. oper

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