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(pl. noun) - Stockings covering the legs and feet. In the ninth century, persons of rank wore them as high as the middle of the thigh, but in the lower classes they only reached to the calf and hence were called nether stocks.
--William Toone's Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete Words, 1832
January 21, 2018