stockingedadj.
/ˈstɒkɪŋd/ 1. Furnished with stockings or with a stocking.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing stockings
stockinged1609
(in, on) one's stocking feet1805
stockinged1862
stocking-footed1926
stocking-feeted1973
sock-footed1981
1609 T. Dekker Worke for Armorours sig. F1v The kerzy stockingd Whoresons.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires iii. 48 Stockin'd with loads of fat Town-dirt he goes.
1887 R. L. Stevenson Manse in Scribner's Mag. 1 613/1 Nothing of this would cross the mind of the young student, as he posted up the Bridges with trim, stockinged legs.
2. Of the foot: Covered with a stocking only.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing stockings
stockinged1609
(in, on) one's stocking feet1805
stockinged1862
stocking-footed1926
stocking-feeted1973
sock-footed1981
1862 Cornhill Mag. May 570 She had taken her shoes off, and came in her stockinged feet up to my bedside.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxvii. 242 He slid back the door-bar and passed out, slightly striking his stockinged toe against the edge of the door.
3. Of a bird: Feathered on the shank.
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > of legs > feathered
rough-legged1575
booted1781
stockinged1855
1855 Poultry Chron. 3 153 The Stomacher Pigeons..are ‘stockinged’, or feathered to the toes with small feathers.
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