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adjective Silk-stocking adj. Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; chiefly applied to men, often by way of reproach. "(They) will find their levees crowded with silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of officers without soldiers."
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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