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wore yellow stockings

wore yellow stockings is the simple past of wear yellow stockings.

Meaning of wear yellow stockings

Verb

wear yellow stockings (third-person singular simple present wears yellow stockings, present participle wearing yellow stockings, simple past wore yellow stockings, past participle worn yellow stockings)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) be jealous

Questions about wore yellow stockings

What is wore yellow stockings the simple past of?
Wore yellow stockings is the simple past of wear yellow stockings.

Words near wore yellow stockings in the dictionary

  1. wore the trousers
  2. wore thin
  3. wore through
  4. wore too many hats
  5. wore up
  6. wore yellow stockings
  7. woreda
  8. woredas
  9. worenine
  10. worest
  11. Worfield

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