Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Wealthy; aristocratic: a silk-stocking district; silk-stocking prep schools.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who wears silk stockings; hence, a person of luxurious habits.
- n. One of the well-to-do or ‘aristocratic’ members of the community or of a party: applied particularly to certain members of the Whig party in the United States in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk)
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