Hosiery
['həʊzɪərɪ;-ʒərɪ] or ['hoʒəri]
Definition
(noun.) socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear).
Editor: Vlad--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The business of a hosier.
(n.) Stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose.
Typist: Rodger
Unserious Contents or Definition
Woman's excuse for walking in the wet.
Checked by Conan
Examples
- Now and again a great chocolate-and-yellow tramcar ground round a difficult bend under the hosiery factory. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- About 2,000 United States patents have been granted in the class of knitting and netting, and the value of hosiery and knit goods in the United States in 1890 was $67,241,013. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- As to _knitting_, the century has seen the day pass when all hosiery was knit by hand. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Checker: Vernon