boot-stockingn. an over-stocking which covers the leg like a jack-boot.
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a1807 W. L. Bowles Note to Banwell Hill In a pair of worsted boot-stockings, which my father observed would keep my under~stockings from the dirt.
1834 R. SoutheyDoctor II. 197 You will not observe his boot-stockings coming high above the knees.