Word Meanings - SILK-STOCKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. will find their levees crowded

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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. will find their levees crowded with silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of officers without soldiers. Jefferson.

Related words: (words related to SILK-STOCKING)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• WEARIABLE
  That may be wearied.
• WEARING
  1. The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer. 2. That which is worn; clothes; garments. Give me my nightly wearing and adieu. Shak.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• WEARILY
  In a weary manner.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• CROWD
  1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• LUXURIOUS
  Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease. " Luxurious cities. " Milton. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ness, n.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WEARABLE
  Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.
• WEARILESS
  Incapable of being wearied.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• WEARISH
  1. Weak; withered; shrunk. "A wearish hand." Ford. A little, wearish old man, very melancholy by nature. Burton. 2. Insipid; tasteless; unsavory. Wearish as meat is that is not well tasted. Palsgrave.
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• MAINSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Blount.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• FORSWEARER
  One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
• UNWEARY
  To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden.