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nylons

NOUN
stockings
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He sold Amway nylons to FBI secretaries while other agents sneered.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 23, 2025

In clothing, auxetic nylons, fibers and other synthetic materials could prove more comfortable than traditional materials.

From Science Daily Jun. 4, 2024

“Part of survival, part of how we thrive and make politics, is that possibility of self-fashioning, of beauty, of pleasure, of nylons or the click of your heels,” she said.

From Seattle Times Apr. 8, 2022

These plastics and nylons also can't be reused or recycled and aren't biodegradable, meaning they'll likely stick around in a landfill somewhere for an infinite amount of time, too.

From Salon Oct. 17, 2021

Her name is Marin or Maris or something like that, and she wears dark nylons all the time and lots of makeup she gets free from selling Avon.

From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros




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