stockinged
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Without shoes, “the floors and carpets get a liberal sprinkling of invisible microorganisms from the visitors’ stockinged feet, some of which are infection producing,” Peter Slade said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
The two elders, Ayatollah Sistani, 90 and clad in black robes, and Francis, 84, in his white cassock, each the highest religious authority among their followers, sat across from one another in stockinged feet.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2021
When she posed for a graduation photo beside her mother, she subverted the solemnity by dropping a stockinged leg into Ursula’s hand, a la Harpo Marx.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2019
We get a closeup of her stockinged feet, which break into an impromptu dance as she revels in the rules of the game.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 1, 2019
He looked suddenly tired and small, standing there in his splayed, stockinged feet, and his eyes contained a panic I had never seen before.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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