Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Netting used to catch fish.
- n. A mesh fabric resembling such netting.
Wiktionary
- n. countable A net used to catch fish.
- n. uncountable A fabric with an open diamond-shaped structure; normally used for stockings etc
- n. countable, usually in plural Stockings made of fishnet fabric.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a net that will enclose fish when it is pulled in
Examples
“Does the whole legs in fishnet stockings seem strange to other folks?”
“Why then, I wonder, would anyone dress her in fishnet stockings and then COVER 90% of those stockings with what appears to be a terry cloth bath towel and small print?”
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“I don’t see myself desperately grasping for fame and adulation while shimmying awkwardly in fishnet stockings.”
“You can’t even be sartorially ironic about pantyhose: downtown punk chicks wear shredded tights, Harajuku girls wear Hello Kitty knee socks and urban vintage cool hunters reference the 40’s in fishnet stockings.”
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“It’s not that they’re not SF writers; they’re just not slutty, slatternly Sci-Fi hacks in fishnet tights.”
“He spent most of his time working in the fields and woods, most of his evenings at home, often weaving a special kind of fishnet or net-basket from fine, frail strips of cane.”
“Their new design is based on the "fishnet" NIM, which Shalaev has been studying in his lab for several years.”
“I started by adding a sheer undershirt - this happens to be from Coquette and came up when I searched my inventory for "fishnet".”
“WMR previously reported that NSA "fishnet" surveillance was used in the take down of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, as well as political dirt gathering directed against New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and then-Senator Joe Biden.”
“She wore tight club shorts, a leather halter, fishnet stockings with ripped holes, and the stiletto boots Regin had already been acquainted with.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fishnet’.
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window dressing
chemise, gossamer, tweed, pleat, fold, cuff, button, shirttails, ascot, cummerbund, velvet, silk and 104 more...
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alopecia
i suppose, all of the words & phrases yoni wolf uses in alopecia, that i love.
ladies man, landmine, cavalier, consumer grade video, single's bingo, all-time gringo, calculated birth, manila envelope, mortaring, houdini, punchline, circus mirrors and 160 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
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Fabrics
Woven, knit and tatted fabrics. Other kinds of cloth, such as tapa and chamois are not included.
shikii, shantung, cotton, linen, tweed, wool, velour, velvet, velveteen, gabardine, chenille, silk and 550 more...
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yardage
types of fabric
cotton, wool, silk, linen, rayon, nylon, spandex, lycra, lurex, goretex, challis, brocade and 77 more...
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the dressing room
vest, jacket, insignia, toga, fan, mantle, ermine, robe, snap, waistcoat, anorak, chaps and 71 more...
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Enjoyable words
obstructionist, demonstrative, locquacious, anthracite, curvaceous, reptilian, aquatic, blithely, meaty, inguinal, omnibus, farmhand and 9 more...
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Nets
Fishing nets and gear, and the people and craft that employ them.
spilliard, spiller, seine, trawl, trawlwarp, trammel, trammeler, ground-net, fishnet, landing net, spoon net, bag net and 88 more...
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