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stockinette

stockinette is the alternative spelling of stockinet.

Meaning of stockinet

Noun

stockinet (countable and uncountable, plural stockinets)

  1. An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, undergarments, etc., are made.
    • The black cloth bodies were stuffed, and were sometimes made of stockinet, or old stockings, for everyone wore black ones in those days.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 162

Forms of stockinette

pluralstockinettes

Phrases with stockinette

Questions about stockinette

What is stockinette the alternative spelling of?
Stockinette is the alternative spelling of stockinet.

Words near stockinette in the dictionary

  1. stockin's
  2. Stockinbingal
  3. stockiness
  4. stockinet
  5. stockinets
  6. stockinette
  7. stockinette stitch
  8. stockinettes
  9. stocking
  10. stocking cap
  11. stocking caps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stockinette (page history and authors); stockinet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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