Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.
- noun Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An item of clothing worn over the
stockings , in fashion in the seventeenth century.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun protective stockings worn with or in place of boots
Etymologies
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Examples
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I had yet in reserve one paire of whole stockings, and a paire of boothose, greater then the former.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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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.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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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.
A Legend of Montrose 1871
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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.
A Legend of Montrose 1871
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I had yet in reserve one paire of whole stockings, and a paire of boothose, greater than the former.
A Legend of Montrose 1871
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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.
A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801
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I sleepd well enough; and riseing nixt morning, I misd one linnen stockine, one halfe silke one, and one boothose, the accoustrement under
A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801
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I had yet in reserve one paire of whole stockings, and a paire of boothose, greater then the former.
A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801
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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
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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‘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.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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