Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Stocking-hose or spatterdashes, worn instead of boots.
- Extra stockings or leggings formerly worn with boots, and covering the upper part of the leg and a part of the thigh, but not the ankles and feet.
Wiktionary
- n. An item of clothing worn over the stockings, in fashion in the seventeenth century.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.
- n. Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback.
WordNet 3.0
- n. protective stockings worn with or in place of boots
Examples
“The first night I sleepd well enough: and riseing nixt morning, I misd one linnen stockine, one halfe silke one, and one boothose, the accoustrement under a boote for one leg; neither could they be found for any search.”
“I had yet in reserve one paire of whole stockings, and a paire of boothose, greater than the former.”
“I sleepd well enough; and riseing nixt morning, I misd one linnen stockine, one halfe silke one, and one boothose, the accoustrement under”
“I had yet in reserve one paire of whole stockings, and a paire of boothose, greater then the former.”
“The roome, which was a low parlour, being well searched with candles, the top of my great boothose was found at a hole, in which they had drawne all the rest.”
“Ribi on his side cried out with all his might, 'Believe him not, my lord; he is an arrant knave, and for that he knoweth I am come to lay a complaint against him for a pair of saddle-bags whereof he hath robbed me, he cometh now with his story of the boothose, which I have had in my house this many”
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