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Century Dictionary (2 definitions)
- 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.
GNU Webster's 1913 (2 definitions)
- Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.
- Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback.
–noun
WordNet (1 definition)
- Protective stockings worn with or in place of boots.
–noun
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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.
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.
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