Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not wearing stockings.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Destitute of stockings.
  • adjective Deprived of stockings.

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  • adjective not wearing stockings

Etymologies

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un- +‎ stockinged

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Examples

  • A long, unstockinged shin thrust up into the air, and a bony, slender foot waggled back and forth.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • He found her in a white cymar of silk lined with furs, her little feet unstockinged and hastily thrust into slippers; her unbraided hair escaping from under her midnight coif, with little array but her own loveliness, rather augmented than diminished by the grief which she felt at the approaching moment of separation.

    Kenilworth 2004

  • As he started to put shoes on unstockinged feet, Brannon caught himself.

    Brannon's Choice Browne, Richard W 2001

  • The tail of her blouse hung half out of her skirt and she had shoved her unstockinged feet into a pair of scuffed loafers.

    A Share in Death Deborah Crombie 1993

  • She liked to rub a leaf between her fingers to feel its velvety texture or, in a daring action for that era, thrust her unstockinged feet into streams to feel the pulsations of the water.

    Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986

  • She got in the car, crossed a pair of unstockinged brown legs and smiled.

    When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985

  • She got in the car, crossed a pair of unstockinged brown legs and smiled.

    When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985

  • She got in the car, crossed a pair of unstockinged brown legs and smiled.

    When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985

  • He felt that the hot breath floating across his cheek was heavy with contagion; he knew that fever raged and burned in the blue veins that swelled over those drooping arms and the unstockinged feet, but, he neither shrank nor trembled at the danger.

    The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

  • She started up -- tore off her cap and her night-dress, and thrust her unstockinged feet in a pair of slippers that stood near the bed.

    The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

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