Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bottle-tit, Acredula caudata, or A. rosea: translating a French name, débassaire, referring to the long woven nest, likened to a stocking.
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Examples
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She had noticed that a young stocking-maker from the "Brig End," James Paton, the son of William and Janet there, was in the habit of stealing alone into the quiet wood, book in hand, day after day, at certain hours, as if for private study and meditation.
The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals John Gibson Paton 1865
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This is the version of the story given by Henson {7} on the authority of an old stocking-maker, who died in Collins's Hospital, Nottingham, aged ninety-two, and was apprenticed in the town during the reign of Queen Anne.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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Our rival, Beauvisage, is not only a successful stocking-maker and an exemplary mayor, but he is also a model husband, having never tripped in loyalty to his wife, whom he respects and admires.
The Deputy of Arcis Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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To crush the candidate the ministry wanted to be rid of, -- a lawyer, and the worst sort of cad, -- I unearthed a stocking-maker, a fearful fool, whom I persuaded to offer himself as candidate.
The Deputy of Arcis Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Rinaldi went out to summon a jeweller, a shoemaker, a stocking-maker, and
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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Rinaldi went out to summon a jeweller, a shoemaker, a stocking-maker, and
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 20: Milan Giacomo Casanova 1761
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I can assure you that the plain traveller feels seriously the inconvenience of following such a caravan; their money flows with such unwise prodigality that real liberality ceases to be valued; and many of your nobility have complained to me that in their travels they are now often expostulated with on account of their parsimony, and taunted with the mistaken extravagance of a stocking-maker or a porter-brewer. "
Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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Violette, a stocking-maker, who had recently bought the Beauvisage house, "it is to pledge ourselves to support, by employing every means in our power, Monsieur Simon Giguet at the elections as deputy in place of Comte Francois Keller.
The Deputy of Arcis Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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