stockings

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He listed the goodies money could buy: sausages, ham, coffee, bacon, soap, ladies’ stockings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Women would wear dresses and stockings; men would don suits and hats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

Curtains that once graced the windows of a royal retreat have been turned into Christmas stockings to be auctioned for charity.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025

Wall Street’s bankers can expect a little something extra in their stockings this year, but there’s a murkier outlook for 2026.

From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025

They pulled heavy woolen stockings over the woolen stockings and the shoes they were already wearing.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder