Definitions

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  • noun A one-piece article of lingerie, resembling stockings or pantyhose but covering the torso, legs and sometimes the arms.

Etymologies

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body +‎ stocking

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Examples

  • Adah Isaacs Menken became famous when she appeared "nude" while strapped to a horse in the melodrama Mazeppa (she was actually wearing a flesh-colored bodystocking).

    Adah Isaacs Menken. 2009

  • These include the green wool Steampunk outfit for Agatha; somehow getting a sparkly bodystocking for Karolina, and a completely new shirt for William.

    I ramble because it's Tuesday camwyn 2007

  • Especially thanks to the Noah Wyle of the skin-tight bodystocking set, Joey Cheek.

    Cheek Clinches Gold, And Better Yet, People’s Hearts Michelle Collins 2006

  • Especially thanks to the Noah Wyle of the skin-tight bodystocking set, Joey Cheek.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Michelle Collins 2006

  • There's a weirdness to it, too - the bodystocking thing has a bit of this element of borrowing Islamic prohibitions, because there have been and I think continue to be countries in the Middle East where the bare midriff is/was prohibited.

    random tummy thoughts... keryx 2005

  • I'm curious where the whole bodystocking thing came from for belly dance - whether it was in fact a mid east import or is actually borrowed from modern dance in some way.

    random tummy thoughts... keryx 2005

  • Carla wear bodystocking and go boompa-boompa all day long.

    Antonio Banderas Goes Boompa-Boompa in the Night 2003

  • I pop on a lace bodystocking from a Soho sex shop that has fleurs-de-lis on it and I think is really beautiful.

    Evening Standard - Home Millicent Binks 2011

  • If in the past you've worn a cloak made out of Kermit the Frog heads and a blood-spattered, white lace bodystocking, just how do you top it?

    Japundit - Published news Punjapit 2010

  • It could work, if I were magenta red-headed, wearing a low-cut, leopard-print bodystocking, with some 5-inch patent red heels, in Reno, working at the Bunny Ranch …

    Purse Blog 2009

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