stirrup stocking

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English

Noun

stirrup stocking (plural stirrup stockings)

  1. (now historical) A type of stocking with no foot, just a strap passing under the foot.
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      He could let me have a pair of coarse, but clean, stirrup-stockings, if I pleased.