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stockingless, a.|ˈstɒkɪŋlɪs|
[f. stocking n. + -less.]
Without stockings.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1768) VIII. xix. 51 They were all slip-shoed; stockenless some; only under-petticoated all. 1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. cxiii. (1783) IV. 62 A little stockingless boy. 1825[see shoeless]. 1869Rossetti Diary 28 June, in Athenæum (1882) 15 July 79/1, I called on Trelawny... He retains his ancient habit of going stockingless. 1907C. C. Brown China in Legend & Story xvii. 246 His stockingless feet had been thrust into cheap shoes. |