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单词 silk stocking
释义 silk stocking
Also silk-stocking.
1. A stocking made of silk; usu. in pl.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 17 To take note how many paire of Silk stockings thou haste.1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girl H iv b, Why, haue not many handsome legges in silke stockins villainous splay feete for all their great roses?1710Tatler No. 245 ⁋2 Four pair of silk-stockings curiously darned.1791Boswell Johnson (Oxf. ed.) I. 135 The silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses.1834–6Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 709/1 Henry VIII. wore the first pair of silk stockings in England.
attrib. and Comb.1812Jefferson Let. to Gerry 11 June, [They] will find their levees crowded with silk stocking gentry, but no yeomanry.1842Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 93 One-third of them..are sure to catch a cold..from every silk-stocking affair in the winter season.1858Simmonds Dict. Trade s.v. Silk-throwing, Preparing hard silk..for yarn for the silk-stocking maker.
2. a. A wearer of silk stockings. Hence in extended sense, a member of the wealthy or upper class. U.S.
1891in Cent. Dict.1896Century Mag. Nov. 6/2 Another class rejoice in this holiday as an opportunity to sit at home..reading in slippered ease.., or fondling the pet hobby. The ‘people’ call them ‘silk-stockings’.1903Independent 12 Nov. 2663/1 The mass of voters look upon him as a ‘silk stocking’—as one who neither understands nor sympathizes with their life.
b. U.S. Politics. (See quots. 1895 and 1896.)
1840Niles' Nat. Reg. (Baltimore) 14 Mar. 22/1 They cried out in derision of locofoco slang—‘Here go the silk stockings.’1894Stead If Christ came to Chicago 36 Hopkins was elected by the silkstockings on the one hand and the short-hairs on the other.1895Funk's Stand. Dict., Silk-stocking, a member of a branch of the Whig party in the earlier part of the 19th century.
3. attrib. and Comb.
a. Simple attrib., as (sense 2 a) silk-stocking company, silk stocking gentry, etc. U.S.
1798Deb. Congress U.S. 15 June (1851) 1948 If they wished to place them in a ridiculous point of view, or to produce for them the name of the Silk Stocking Company, or any other term of derision, they could not take a more effectual course to obtain it.1812T. Jefferson Writings (1904) XIII. 163, I trust..the Gores and Pickerings will find their levees crowded with silk stocking gentry, but no yeomanry.1836Col. Crockett's Exploits & Adventures Texas iv. 58 You may be called a drunken dog by some of the clean shirt and silk stocking gentry.1874‘H. Churton’ Toinette xiii. 154 She had managed to pick up..‘a tolerable English education’,..[possibly] through the charity of some teacher at the ‘Silk-Stocking Academy’, on ‘Gentleman Ridge’.1903N.Y. Sun 28 Nov. 4 He is the representative of the wealthy intellectual, the cultured, the ‘silk stocking’ element, for which the people in general have no abiding affection.1980Verbatim Autumn 1/2 Next after hill the commonest generic is row (several examples already given). The most frequent response of this type was Silk Stocking Row.
b. Special combs.: silk-stocking district (or quarter), a district inhabited mainly by supporters of the (Whig or) Republican party.
1893World's Fair Puck 18 Sept. 231/2 Mr. Astorbilt (of the silk-stocking district)—No; I thought I was a thousand miles away from Tammany!1903N.Y. Even. Post 30 Oct. 2 Political conditions change even in the ‘silk-stocking’ quarter—the middle reaches of Manhattan, between 14th Street and 96th Street.1964Economist 2 May 486/2 Mr Wallace may do well, both in the silk stocking districts, and on the waterfront.
Hence silk-stockinged a.
1850Thackeray Pendennis xxxvii, John..was leaning against the door-pillar, with..his legs crossed: beautiful, silk-stockinged.1861G. J. Whyte-Melville Mkt. Harb. 34 The languid man's silk-stockinged foot having been re-shod.
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