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Silk-stocking   Listen
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Silk-stocking  adj.  Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; chiefly applied to men, often by way of reproach. "(They) will find their levees crowded with silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of officers without soldiers."






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