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- noun The part of stockings,
hosiery , or other flexiblefootwear that surrounds the foot. - noun An
unshod footclad only inSocks ,stockings or otherhosiery .
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Examples
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Many times we carefully felt our way around the room, -- stockingfoot and tip-toe, -- searching for some article laid down perhaps but a moment before, lost, without the aid of eyesight to recover it, until at length we thought ourselves ready to pass into the adjoining room, whose window opened upon the woodshed.
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