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- noun obsolete Plural form of
stocken . Multiple pairs of stocken.
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Examples
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It was, Mary, git the coal-skittle; Mary, run down to the public-house for the beer; Mary, I intend to wear your clean stockens out walking, or your new bonnet to church.
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Master to dispose of, and one to me, containing as followeth: 44 paire of shooes and pumps, 6 Dozen of worsted and threed stockens, 3 dozen of speckled shirts and Breaches, 12 hatts, some Carpenters Tools, 5
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Mary, git the coal-skittle; Mary, run down to the public-house for the beer; Mary, I intend to wear your clean stockens out walking, or your new bonnet to church.
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Birde, ales Borne, the 27 of novembr, to bye a payer of sylke stockens, to playe the Gwisse in xxs. "
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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