Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Short stockings; socks.
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Examples
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Collars were six and eight cents, said the ad, cotton half-hose eighteen cents a pair.
Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995
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Seamless goods are made in a great variety of qualities, ranging from cotton half-hose at fifty cents per dozen to the fine worsted stockings at $6.00 per dozen.
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Among other knitting machines in modern use are the drawers machine; machines for hose and half-hose with apparatus for making the instep, finishing off the toe, splicing or thickening the heels, etc.
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In the case of half-hose there is frequently a ribbed top, or in underwear a ribbed cuff, and these may be made either of circular web or full fashioned.
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On half-hose the leg is made the same size down to the ankle, but on ladies 'hose the stocking is shaped somewhat in the machine.
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When the shoes finally came off, they revealed white silk half-hose, which, discarded in their turn, showed a pair of startlingly pale feet, on which the new boy now essayed wincingly to walk.
The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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There was a one-piece cotton undergarment, thin and soft, that reached over the knees and shoulders, something like the one-piece pajamas some fellows wear, and a kind of half-hose, that came up to just under the knee and stayed there -- had elastic tops of their own, and covered the edges of the first.
Herland 1915
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"Hurry!" admonished the American, drawing the silk half-hose of the ruler of Lutha over his foot.
The Mad King 1914
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"Hurry!" admonished the American, drawing the silk half-hose of the ruler of Lutha over his foot.
The Mad King Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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From a dimple-kneed, despotic, strenuous youngster, ruling the nursery with a small hand of iron, in half a year Drina had grown into a rather slim, long-legged, coolly active child; and though her hair had not been put up, her skirts had been lowered, and shoes and stockings substituted for half-hose and sandals.
The Younger Set 1899
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